Easy Ways to Reduce Energy Consumption Brought to You by GE, a 2007 ENERGY STAR® "Sustained Excellence Award" Winner

Business Wire, March 1, 2007

LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- With the average home often responsible for more than twice the annual greenhouse gas emissions than the average car1, many people are looking for ways to reduce their energy consumption. GE Consumer & Industrial - the recent recipient of the 2007 ENERGY STAR[R] Partner of the Year "Sustained Excellence Award" - has a suggestion: Use GE Energy Smart[TM] light bulbs and replace your aged dishwasher, refrigerator, air conditioner and washing machine with ENERGY STAR qualified appliances.

Currently, GE offers 519 ENERGY STAR qualified appliances, representing 50% of all GE appliance products. This offering includes:

* ENERGY STAR qualified dishwashers. One of the most innovative products on the market is the ENERGY STAR qualified GE Profile[TM] dishwasher with SmartDispense[TM] technology, which allows the dishwasher door to hold an entire 45 fluid ounce bottle of liquid or gel dishwasher detergent and dispense just the right amount for each wash. If all Americans used ENERGY STAR qualified GE Profile dishwashers, more than 20 billion gallons of water would be saved per year - enough to fill 25,000 Olympic swimming pools.

* ENERGY STAR qualified refrigerators. Innovations like dual-evaporator technology improve energy efficiency and food freshness. ENERGY STAR qualified GE refrigerators use 40% less energy than conventional models sold in 2001, and about 50% less than models manufactured before 1993.

* ENERGY STAR qualified washers. GE topload washers with automatic temperature controls and more energy-efficient drain pumps and motors now use less water. And the GE frontload washer saves up to 23 gallons per average-size load, or 61% less water.2 In fact, the GE[R] frontload washer will actually pay for itself in water and energy cost savings over the course of its life.

* ENERGY Star qualified room air conditioners: Replacing a 10-year-old room air conditioner with a new GE ENERGY STAR qualified model means consumers can save up to 25% in operating costs, and they will use at least 10% less energy than with conventional models.

ENERGY STAR Lighting Products

A simple step for reducing energy use around the house is to use GE ENERGY STAR qualified lighting products. GE's Energy Smart[TM] Light Bulbs with Compact Fluorescent technology (CFLs) are ENERGY STAR qualified - offering energy savings of up to 75% and lasting up to 10 times longer than a standard incandescent.

Over their lifetime, the ENERGY STAR-qualified lighting products GE sold in 2006 will reduce consumers' electricity costs by $1.3 billion and prevent one trillion pounds of greenhouse gas emissions by power plants, the equivalent of removing eight million cars from the road for one year.

GE Consumer & Industrial spans the globe as an industry leader in major appliance, lighting and integrated industrial equipment, systems and services. Providing solutions for commercial, industrial and residential use in more than 100 countries, GE Consumer & Industrial uses innovative technologies and "ecomagination," a GE initiative to aggressively bring to market new technologies that help customers and consumers meet pressing environmental challenges, to deliver comfort, convenience and electrical protection and control. General Electric (NYSE: GE) brings imagination to work, selling products under the Monogram[R], Profile[TM] GE[R], Hotpoint[R], SmartWater[TM], Reveal[R], GE Edison[TM], and EnergySmart[TM] consumer brands, and Entellisys[TM] industrial brand. For more information, consumers may visit www.ge.com.

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1 http://www.energystar.gov/index.cfm?c=lighting.pr_lighting.

2 As compared to a typical washer, WWSE5240.