A few photos of light displays powered by GE technology all around the world. [via GE Reports]
Paris, France: GE Lighting has been a partner of the annual Champs Elysees event since 2002. The number of pedestrians visiting the famous avenue is expected to rise from an average of 300,000 to 500,000 every day reaching more than a million on Dec. 31. Celebrities including Liza Minelli, Johnny Halliday, Monica Belluci, Vanessa Paradis and Marion Cotillard, attended the illumination ceremony.
On the famous Champs Elysees this year (photo posted above), “a glittering forest of fuchsia” lights adorn more than 400 trees for two kilometers — and an additional 120 trees are decorated with 30,000 flashing lights to represent the “light from falling stars”. Meanwhile, across the ocean in Washington, D.C., GE’s design of the 2009 National Christmas Tree this year has made it the most energy efficient in history — with LEDs using about 6,000 watts compared to last year’s 18,000 watts.
Read more at the GE Lighting web site.
Washington DC: GE has been designing the National Christmas Tree since 1962, producing and donating the lighting and decorations.
"This was the inspiration behind GE’s design of the 2009 National Christmas Tree, now the most energy efficient in history, consuming about 6,000 watts compared to last year’s 18,000 watts. This year’s tree will be outfitted entirely in LEDs and will feature background lighting, a topper and ornaments all utilized in past designs.
The lighting design features 750 strings of white LED lights, half of which are C5 LED lights reused from last year, and half of which are new LED crystal minis, giving the lighting a more three-dimensional look. Each string only costs 14 cents to run for the entire holiday season. The topper for the tree is the same heirloom topper used for the last three years—a 42-inch star made with industrial grade, warm white GE Tetra® LEDs. The ornaments all come from the tree’s recent history, with gold stars from 2008; white stars from 2004; and red and gold starbursts from 1998."
[via TheNationalTree.org]
Read more about GE & The National Christmas Tree here.
Wednesday, January 27, 2010 at 6:00AM 
Juan, 3rd Rotation IMLPOne of our Energy IMLPs, Juan, worked with the Transmission & Distribution IT team to design and provision the hardware, network, and software to support the first European Smart Grid Demo Lab, a fully featured demonstration room that shows the GE Smart Grid product portfolio. The lab was launched at the end of November 2009.
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