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Monday, May 30, 2011
The $500 million investment for research and development has resulted in GE delivering a world first in power plant engineering to deliver “an unprecedented combination of flexibility and efficiency.”
The FlexEfficiency 50 Combined Cycle power plant has an installed capacity of 510 MW and offers fuel efficiency greater than 61% with technology that allows the integration of more renewable resources into the power grid like wind and solar energy. The company used its jet engine expertise to engineer a plant that will ramp up at a rate of more than 50 MW per minute – twice the rate of current industry benchmarks enabling utilities to deliver power quickly and decrease in non-peak times. This balances the grid cost efficiency and helps to deploy additional renewable energy resources.
A typical plant using this technology can deliver enough energy to power more than 600,000 homes. Paul Browning, VP of thermal products for GE Power & Water, said: “As our customers seek to increase their use of RE, the challenge of grid stability sharpens. They are under added pressure to achieve higher levels of efficiency and lower emissions for natural gas power plants. The FlexEfficiency 50 plant creates an immense growth opportunity in a new segment for our gas turbine technology and is in lock-step with our commitment to build a cleaner energy future.”
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