Conference Bites

GE Ecomagination Challenge Launch Event: Powering the Grid July 13 San Francisco

"We want to make clean tech our reality."
~ Beth Comstock, SVP & CMO, GE

"Our business would be a Fortune 130 business, just in clean technology."
~ Jeff Immelt, CEO, GE

"This is not a precious initiative, it is a broad based industrial effort."
~ Jeff Immelt, CEO, GE

"Smart Gird may be an elite term, we are using 'Digital Energy' within GE."
~ Jeff Immelt, CEO, GE

"Policy clarity would help, but we are going to go forward regardless."
~ Jeff Immelt, CEO, GE

"This problem is a fat slow rabbit. There are lots of ways to succeed Scale is the challenge GE can help with."
~ Ray Lane, Managing Partner, KPCB

"We've got this 100 year hairball of pricing based on past needs, not current opportunities, that we have to unwind."
~ Chuck McDermott, Founder & General Partner, Rockport Capital

"Storing electricity could be the holy grail, if it's low cost."
~ Mark Little, SVP & Director, GE Global Research

"Our partners help GE avoid being like Godzilla at the end of the movie with the tail wiping out villages, when it comes to working with small firms."
~ Jeff Immelt, CEO, GE

"We are the pioneers, and we now have the arrows in the back."
~ Peter Darbee, CEO, PG&E

"Necessity may be the mother of invention, but energy and environment is the mother of all necessities."
~ Arun Majumdar, Director, ARPA-E

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Sustainable Brands '10 June 7-10 Monteray

"Use the engine of the business to drive social innovation, not the fumes."
~Jason Saul, CEO, Mission Measurement

"Eco efficiency will be biggest game changer & contributor to the  global economy over next 20 years."
~ Lee Green, VP Brand Experience and Strategic Design, IBM

"China spends $9 Billion per month on renewable energy. The US spends $8 Billion per year!"
~ Aimee Christensen, Founder and CEO, Christensen Global Strategies

"Being green is no longer a differentiator. 'Green' is superficial. It’s a color. The real strategic opportunities come from being authentic and innovating."
~ unknown

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National Town Meeting on Demand Response and Smart Grid, June 23-24 D.C.

"Energy efficiency standards help us tell OPEC we need their oil as much as we need their sand."
~ Congressman Ed Markey (D–MA)

"Because we have organized markets, we are ahead of Chinese in ability to bring technology and demand response to consumer."
~ Jon Wellinghoff, Chairman, FERC

"The Smart grid industry needs to focus on selling benefits to consumers as well as benefits to utilities."
~ John Jimison, Sr. Counsel, House Energy and Commerce Committee

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