GE bags power deal in Poland

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GE today announced that its Power Services business bagged orders worth €40 million from PGE GiEK S.A., a utility in Poland, to upgrade generator and steam turbine assets at the Turow Power Plant.

The upgrades will result in a combined 45-megawatt (MW) output increase, said GE in a statement.

GE will upgrade three 50WT20H-100 generators and three 13CK230 steam turbines to extend equipment lifetime by at least 150,000 hours.

The project upgrade increases the availability of the turbosets to 97 percent in the first year of operation and above 98 percent in the next year. The upgrade is expected to increase power output by 45 MW and improve power plant efficiency by approximately 1.4 percent.

“This project is extremely important for the power complex in Turow as well as for the local community: a lifetime extension, by 150,000 hours, of key equipment will allow us to utilize deposits of lignite from the Turow mine and simultaneously will help to secure current employment,” said Slawomir Zawada, president of PGE GiEK S.A.

GE will conduct the upgrade of the generator rotors and manufacturing of new rods at its generator factory in Wroclaw, Poland.

The steam turbine upgrade includes the delivery of new HP, IP and LP turbine inner modules, which will be manufactured in GE’s turbine factory in Elblag, Poland. The upgrade is scheduled to begin with the shutdown of the first unit in April 2017, and the commissioning of the last unit is scheduled for January 2020.

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