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Cleaner Energy through the New Combination of Jet Engine and Gas Turbine Technology · New Plant Offers More than 61 Percent Efficiency and Flexibility unprecedented Operations · Technology Allows further spread of the Renewables like Wind and Solar · New Power Plant is First Product in New GE FlexEfficiency Portfolio * · Technology Introduced Today in Paris, 14:00 CET PARIS, FRANCE-May 25, 2011-GE (NYSE: GE), the technology helps to provide a quarter of the world's electricity, today announced the new and the first-of-its kind power plant engineered to provide a combination of unprecedented flexibility and efficiency. With a slim fast up and down in response to fluctuations in wind and solar power, technology will enable better integration of renewable resources into the electricity network. The FlexEfficiency * 50 Combined Cycle [1] Power Plant rated at 510 megawatts and offers fuel efficiency greater than 61 percent. This plant is the result of investing more than $ 500 million in research and development by GE and a key part of its ongoing work to create and produce technologies around the world that provide a cleaner, more energy efficient. While power plants are now able to provide the flexibility or a high efficiency, this power plant will provide a combination that has never happened before both of them. GE said the combination of flexibility and efficiency 'FlexEfficiency,' which is essential if renewable power would cost-effectively integrate into the electricity network throughout the world on a large scale. GE jet engines pulled from the company's expertise to design a plant that will increase at a rate of more than 50 megawatts per minute, twice the level of current industry standards. Operational flexibility at this level will allow the utility to provide power quickly when needed and to ramp down if not, balancing cost-effective grid and help to spread the additional resources of renewable resources like wind and solar. A typical FlexEfficiency 50 factories would provide enough energy to power more than 600,000 European homes. Increasing Renewables with Natural Gas "As our customers seek to increase use of renewable energy, sharpen the challenge of grid stability. They are under added pressure to achieve higher levels of efficiency and lower emissions for natural gas power plants. The FlexEfficiency 50 plants create huge growth opportunities in new segments for gas turbine technology and we are in lock-step with our commitment to build a future of cleaner energy, "said Paul Browning, vice president-thermal products for GE Power & Water. "For years we have been working to develop technology that can, in the same breath, provide breakthrough efficiency and deal head-on with the challenge of grid variability caused by wind and sun. The need for flexibility and efficiency of the combined even more urgent today as the state in around the world set new emission standards. " The FlexEfficiency 50 plants is the first product in GE's portfolio of new FlexEfficiency and part of GE's ecomagination commitment driving clean energy technologies through innovation and investment in R & D. The launch follows the recent announcement of GE's most efficient wind turbines in the world, the highest reported efficiency for thin film solar and $ 11 billion on acquisitions that strengthen its portfolio that supports the natural gas transmission and power. "Most of the current generation of technology to serve the power grid yesterday. Institutions and individuals everywhere to find cost-effective way to use solar, wind and gas energy in large scale. But they often assume that renewable energy is a plug-in to the electricity network that exist, "said Steve Bolze, President and CEO of GE Power & Water. "As far as GE, we have invested to strengthen our global portfolio with a view to provide efficient power plants throughout the clean energy technologies. We hope this breakthrough FlexEfficiency to help take advantage of abundant natural gas while at the same time we carve out new roads to accelerate the adoption of broader renewable energy, all with minimal impact on natural resources. " Sustainability by Design GE engineers are able to avoid the typical sacrifice of flexibility and efficiency by approaching the design of plant equipment and control systems perspective. The FlexEfficiency 50 plants engineered for flexible operations by integrating next generation 9FB Gas Turbines which operate at 50 Hz, which is the power frequency of the most widely used in countries around the world, a 109D-14 Steam Turbine, which runs on waste heat generated by gas turbines; sophisticated W28 GE Generator, Brand * Vie integrated control system that connects all the technology, and heat recovery steam generator. "With global demand for energy is expected to double by 2030 and electricity generation accounting for 40 percent of greenhouse gas emissions, utilities and government agencies take a hard look at how to generate power more efficiently," said Ricardo Cordoba, president of GE Energy Western Europe and North Africa. "This innovation could have a dramatic effect on emissions of CO ₂ and offer tips, agile efficient and cost effective for us to help EU countries in pursuing their goals of energy 20-20-20 [2]." International Energy Agency concluded in a report issued yesterday that a large share of renewable energy eligible for variable power and market systems are configured properly so that they can get the best use of their resources flexibly. The FlexEfficiency 50 PLTGU offer a level of flexibility that has never happened before will simplify this challenge without sacrificing fuel efficiency. | |
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