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Bharat Selects GE Technology for Power Plant Expansion in India ATLANTA, GEORGIA (October 5, 2004) — GE Energy will supply a Frame 6FA gas turbine and additional equipment to Bharat Heavy Electricals, Ltd. of Hyderabad, India. The new machine will be installed at the Dhuvuran Power Project Phase-II in Gujarat, India, an expansion of an existing facility. The plant will be owned and operated by Gujarat State Electricity Corporation Limited (GSECL). The Frame 6FA gas turbine, capable of more than 74 megawatts of output in simple-cycle operation, will be fueled by natural gas and will operate in a combined-cycle configuration to help produce a total of 112 megawatts for the Indian power grid. The power plant also includes a bottoming cycle consisting of a steam turbine and corresponding heat recovery steam generator. With the second highest population and ranked as the sixth largest energy consumer in the world, India is seeking new technologies to help meet its demand for electrical power. While coal currently supplies approximately 70% of the country's thermal power plants, natural gas is emerging as a preferred fuel in the power generation sector. The gas turbine will be manufactured at GE's plant in Belfort, France, while a Speedtronic™ Mark VI control system and two human-machine interface systems will be produced at GE's facilities in Salem, Virginia. The equipment will be shipped in December of 2004 with commercial operation expected by May of 2005. The Frame 6FA is the mid-sized member of GE's family of F technology gas turbines, which has surpassed ten million hours of commercial operation in power plants around the world. Bharat Heavy Electricals, the EPC contractor for this project, is the largest engineering and manufacturing enterprise of its kind in India, and is a leading international company in the power field. It is also supplying the bottoming cycle equipment for this power plant from its factories in India. About GE Energy GE Energy (www.gepower.com) is one of the world's leading suppliers of power generation and energy delivery technology, with 2003 revenues of nearly $18.5 billion. Based in Atlanta, Georgia, GE Energy provides equipment, service and management solutions across the power generation, oil and gas, transmission and distribution, distributed power and energy rental industries worldwide. For more information, contact: GE Energy: Dennis Murphy GE Energy +1 678 844 6948 dennis.murphy@ps.ge.com Ken Darling or Howard Masto Masto Public Relations +1 518 786 6488 kenneth.darling@ps.ge.com howard.masto@ps.ge.com > Press Contacts > More 2004 Press Releases |