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Energy & Power · Historical gas-engine business · sold to Advent 2018

GE Distributed Power · Jenbacher & Waukesha

Gas engines from Austria and the American Midwest powering towns and factories.

Sold to Advent International November 6, 2018; now INNIO.

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Business history

GE Distributed Power combined the Austrian Jenbacher gas-engine business, acquired in 2003, with the Waukesha engine brand GE gained through its 2011 Dresser acquisition. The engines supplied on-site power, combined heat and power and gas-compression duty worldwide, with main sites in Austria, Canada and the United States.

Advent International completed its $3.25 billion acquisition of the business on November 6, 2018, including GE’s share of a joint venture with a China Energy Group subsidiary. The independent company now operates as INNIO.

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Major products & innovations

  • ✦ Jenbacher gas engines
  • ✦ Waukesha gas engines
  • ✦ Combined heat and power plants
  • ✦ Engine digital monitoring

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Heritage illustration

Energy & Power atmosphere
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GE Jokes

The sixth why

We asked the five whys. We found the root cause. Then the manager asked a sixth why.

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GE Motivational Quotes

No turbine was ever built by one person. Every one of those hands mattered.

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