News Release from GE Lighting - 7th Energy Star Award

16 March 2012

GE Lighting CEO Credits Customer Focus and Innovation for Seventh Consecutive ENERGY STAR® Sustained Excellence Award

 

EAST CLEVELAND, Ohio – March 16, 2012 – (NYSE:GE) – GE Lighting President & CEO Maryrose Sylvester accepted the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) ENERGY STAR^® Sustained Excellence Award last night at an awards ceremony in Washington D.C. It was the seventh consecutive year that GE’s appliances and lighting businesses were recognized with the honor.

"We're proud that GE Lighting has more than 500 ENERGY STAR^®-qualified products which provide increased energy efficiency for our customers," says Sylvester. “Being recognized for sustained excellence shows the value of listening to customers, and points to our ability to swiftly put innovations born in GE labs into the hands of customers.”

GE was recognized for its support of the ENERGY STAR^® program through a variety of initiatives, including training sales employees, retailers and distributors, promoting ENERGY STAR^®-qualified products, and recycling at company locations.

GE Lighting offered a total of 501 ENERGY STAR^®-qualified LED (light-emitting diode) and CFL (compact fluorescent lamps) products in 2011—more than at any point in its history and 29 percent more than in 2010. Approximately three-fourths of all GE Lighting CFL and LED products sold in the United States in 2011 were ENERGY STAR^®-qualified.

GE Lighting was the first lighting manufacturer in the U.S. to receive ENERGY STAR^® qualification for an omnidirectional LED bulb designed to replace a standard incandescent bulb. Other noteworthy energy-savings initiatives in 2011 included reducing 478,000 metric tons of greenhouse gas / CO₂ emissions at GE facilities and illuminating the National Christmas tree in Washington, D.C., with thousands of GE-branded Color Effects^®programmable, color-changing, ENERGY STAR®-qualified LED lights.

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