Welcome New PCCC Member- GE Hitachi!

GE Vernova’s nuclear business, GE Hitachi, is an alliance created by GE Vernova and Hitachi to serve the global nuclear industry, and is a world- leading provider of advanced reactors, fuel and nuclear services.

An alliance created to serve the global nuclear industry – GEH combines GE’s design expertise and history of delivering reactors, fuels, and services globally with Hitachi’s proven experience in advanced modular construction to offer customers around the world the technological leadership required to effectively enhance reactor performance, power output, and safety.

GE Hitachi is a planned purpose-built company on a mission to electrify the planet while simultaneously working to decarbonize it. The company brings together GE’s portfolio of energy businesses including Power, Wind, Electrification and Digital businesses. With focus, GE Hitachi is accelerating the path to more reliable, affordable, and sustainable energy, while helping its customers power economies and deliver the electricity that is vital to health, safety, security, and improved quality of life.
GE Hitachi is passionate about leading the global energy transition. Its solutions are not just concepts, they have been designed to reshape the future of energy, making a real impact on the world’s journey towards net zero. Here’s a closer look at GE’s key focus areas: 
 
▪ Pioneering small modular reactors (SMRs)

▪ Upgrading the energy grid

▪ Reshaping the energy landscape towards the close-to-market technologies like SMRs and carbon capture to attract private investment and support the net-zero grid goal by 2030.

▪ Addressing the skills gap: GE Hitachi’s initiatives designed to inspire and equip the next generation of engineers with the skills needed for successful careers in the evolving energy sector.
 

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Bernhard Otterstein was born and educated in Vancouver, Canada, where he graduated with honours from the Sauder School of Business at the University of British Columbia. He has worked with numerous corporate, governmental, and institutional entities in North America, Europe and Asia in the areas of economic analysis, strategic project and investment planning, new market development, as well as cross-cultural communications. He has been directly involved in projects in the fields of real estate, engineering, energy, biotechnology and IT/telecommunications.

Over the past 15 years, Mr. Otterstein has gained first-hand experience in identifying and promoting innovative, emerging technologies and related business opportunities, taking them from early stage to market via private equity investment and the active co-management of several start-up ventures.