- Upgrades to M501F Gas Turbines and Other Components Deliver
Industry-Leading Performance, Achieving an Output Increase of 9.2
Percent and a 2.9 Percent Efficiency Improvement on One of Tuxpan’s
Gas Turbines
- GE Collaborated with Global Power Generation (GPG), a Subsidiary of
Naturgy Energy Group, to Deliver a Total Plant Solution for Tuxpan
Power Plant
- Results Exceeded GPG’s Expectations, Positioning the Site to
Dispatch More Power to the Mexican Grid and Improve Operating and
Maintenance Costs
- Upgrades Completed as Part of a 12-Year Agreement to Service GPG’s
Power Plant
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BADEN, Switzerland -- (Business Wire)
Continuing its commitment to invest in and deliver total gas plant
solutions for its customers, GE’s Power Services business (NYSE: GE)
today announced industry-leading results for its cross-fleet gas turbine
upgrade project at the Fuerza y Energía de Tuxpan facility in Veracruz,
Mexico.
GE exceeded its commitment for the project, achieving an output increase
of 9.2 percent and a 2.9 percent efficiency improvement on one of
Tuxpan’s gas turbines, while extending maintenance intervals to 32,000
hours for the 450-megawatt (MW) power plant. GE applied its cross-fleet
technologies to two Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. M501F gas turbines
and two steam turbines, helping Tuxpan deliver power more competitively
to an expanding electricity segment across eight states in Mexico.
Tuxpan is owned by Global Power Generation (GPG), the international
power generation subsidiary of Naturgy
and the Kuwait Investment Authority.
“At GPG, we provide service to more than 1.5 million people, and we are
continuously looking for ways to improve the availability and efficiency
of our operations to better serve our customers,” said Fernando Ramos,
chief operating officer of GPG. “GE’s cross-fleet upgrade for our
M501F machines achieved better results than they promised, allowing us
to realize greater value from our equipment and improve our plant
performance. Having a services provider like GE that can address
plant-level improvements is important. One of our biggest concerns when
upgrading a gas turbine is ensuring the rest of the plant can support
any changes in performance.”
GE completed the work as part of a 12-year agreement, showcasing its
Fleet360* platform, which offers plant owners tailored solutions for
all power generation equipment, regardless of whether the components
were originally supplied by GE or another equipment manufacturer.
The upgrades at Tuxpan include new gas turbine hardware infused with
GE’s patented materials technology and improved engine component
architecture, which takes advantage of decades of experience in
developing and manufacturing gas turbines. GE also serviced Tuxpan’s
steam turbines, uprated its generator systems and installed a combustion
dynamics monitoring system to help the site identify combustion issues
before they occur.
“This has been a terrific partnership with GPG over the last two years,”
said Scott Strazik, president and CEO of GE’s Power Services business.
“We’re proud of the work we did at Tuxpan, where we were able to
demonstrate our ability to service gas turbines manufactured by other
original equipment manufacturers (OEMs). But cross-fleet isn’t just
about servicing non-GE machines. It’s about adopting them and making
them our own—by applying our technologies and expertise from the world’s
largest installed base over their life cycle.”
Added Jim Kaveney, president and CEO of the Americas region for GE’s
Power Services business, “GPG was the ideal candidate with which to
develop this new upgrade, and this milestone strengthens our
long-standing relationship. Over the last 20 months, GE has maintained
and serviced gas turbines installed at three power plants to lower their
operational costs. Today, this project shows how GE solutions can
increase the level of flexibility and performance at the plant level and
help our customers, like GPG, remain competitive in a highly dynamic
industry.”
In
May, GE unveiled a range of capabilities to advance the performance
and serviceability of other OEM gas turbine fleets, including Siemens’
and Mitsubishi’s SGT-800 and 501F units. GE also announced more than
$200 million in backlogged gas turbine cross-fleet orders. GE’s
injection of its advanced capabilities and technology into these fleets
will help gas plant operators, like GPG, gain more flexibility and
efficiency along with longer maintenance intervals and better overall
performance. The completion of the project at Tuxpan marks the latest of
12 completed outages across varying scopes and engine types since the
inception of the cross-fleet solutions business.
About GPG
GPG was set up in 2014 by Naturgy and Kuwait Investment Authority
KIA—through its subsidiary Wren House Infrastructure—as a vehicle to
channel its international electricity generation business, one of the
main growth vectors identified by the group. It is a multinational
pioneer in the integration of gas and electricity and the main gas
distribution company in Mexico and the KIA. GPG develops and manages
power generation assets with a global focus on using technologies in
which its experience guarantees success. GPG also offers its customers engineering,
operation and maintenance services for their facilities. In
México, Global Power Generation operates four Combined Cycle Power
Plants, two in the state of Sonora, one in Veracruz; and another in
Durango. As well as the Bií Hioxo Wind Farm in the state of Oaxaca;
which have a total generation capacity of 2,523 MW.
About GE
GE (NYSE: GE) is the world’s Digital Industrial Company, transforming
industry with software-defined machines and solutions that
are connected, responsive and predictive. GE is organized around a
global exchange of knowledge, the "GE Store," through which each
business shares and accesses the same technology, markets, structure and
intellect. Each invention further fuels innovation and application
across our industrial sectors. With people, services, technology and
scale, GE delivers better outcomes for customers by speaking the
language of industry. www.ge.com
About GE Power
GE Power is a world energy leader providing equipment, solutions and
services across the energy value chain from generation to
consumption. Operating in more than 180 countries, our technology
produces a third of the world’s electricity, equips 90 percent of power
transmission utilities worldwide, and our software manages more than
forty percent of the world’s energy. Through relentless innovation and
continuous partnership with our customers, we are developing the energy
technologies of the future and improving the power networks we depend on
today. For more information please visit http://www.ge.com/power,
and follow GE Power on Twitter
and on LinkedIn.
About GE’s Power Services
GE’s Power Services business delivers world-class service solutions for
our customers across total plant assets and their operational lifetimes,
tapping into the Industrial Internet to improve the performance of our
solutions over the entire life cycle through the power of software and
big data analytics. Follow on LinkedIn
at GE’s Power Services or visit website at www.ge.com/power/services.
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