GE starts $50M manufacturing facility

CLEARWATER — GE Energy Management has started construction on a new 190,000-square-foot manufacturing Center of Excellence in Clearwater. The new facility will encompass GE's existing manufacturing facility for instrument transformers, as well as space for the company to manufacture capacitors. GE plans to create 250 new jobs as part of the project.

The Center of Excellence is scheduled to be fully operational by the fourth quarter of 2015.

The $50 million manufacturing facility represents a reinvestment in Clearwater, where GE has had presence for almost 40 years. The company has 430 employees in Clearwater and 4,400 statewide.