Exhibit 23
Consent of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm
The Board of Directors
General Electric Company:
We consent to the incorporation by reference in the registration statements on Form S-3 (Registration Nos. 33-50639, 33-39596, 33-39596-01, 33-29024, 333-59671, 333-120155, 333-72566 and 333-130117), on Form S-4 (Registration No. 333-107556), and on Form S-8 (Registration Nos. 333-01953, 333-42695, 333-74415, 333-83164, 333-98877, 333-94101, 333-65781, 333-88233, 333-117855, 333-99671 and 333-102111) of General Electric Company of our report dated February 9, 2007, with respect to the statement of financial position of General Electric Company and consolidated affiliates as of December 31, 2006 and 2005, and the related statements of earnings, changes in shareowners’ equity and cash flows for each of the years in the three-year period ended December 31, 2006, management’s assessment of the effectiveness of internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2006 and the effectiveness of internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2006, which report appears in the December 31, 2006 annual report on Form 10-K of General Electric Company.
Our report refers to a change in the methods of accounting for pension and other post retirement benefits and for share based compensation in 2006.
Our report expresses our opinion that General Electric Company did not maintain effective internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2006 because of the effect of a material weakness on the achievement of the objectives of the control criteria and contains an explanatory paragraph that states that management has identified and included in its assessment the following material weakness as of December 31, 2006: the Company did not have adequately designed procedures to designate each hedged commercial paper transaction with the specificity required by Statement of Financial Accounting Standards 133, Accounting for Derivative Instruments and Hedging Activities, as amended.
| /s/ KPMG LLP | |
KPMG LLP February 27, 2007 Stamford, Connecticut |