In the wake of its acquisitions of Alstom’s power and grid business in 2015 and blade maker LM Wind Power this year, GE now sells the broadest portfolio of renewables technologies of any company in the world. Yet it’s the $260bn company’s immense research capabilities that should perhaps be most worrying to competitors.
GE is not only able to cross-pollinate between its clean-energy technologies; it’s also doing so among all of its industrial units — an internal exchange of ideas, expertise and resources the company refers to as the “GE Store”.
