ATLANTA, GEORGIA - September 05, 2007 :- GE Energy's first 9H gas turbine, the heart of its H System* advanced combined-cycle technology, recently surpassed 24,000 hours of commercial operation at its global launch site, the Baglan Bay Power Station in South Wales.

"This is a major milestone, demonstrating expected maintenance intervals for key H System gas turbine hot gas path components," said John Reinker, general manager of gas turbine and combined-cycle products for GE Energy. "The operating experience of the Baglan plant has led to further technology improvements to be incorporated at the scheduled hot gas path maintenance event."

The 24,000-hour milestone follows a borescope inspection held in June 2007, which indicated that all H System gas turbine components are able to continue operating until the next planned outage.

"Throughout an extensive testing period and more than three years of commercial operation, the H System gas turbine at Baglan Bay continues to meet our design targets and performance expectations," noted Reinker. "To date, the plant has produced a total of 11 terrawatt hours of electricity."

The Baglan plant has been providing commercial power since December of 2003. The 12-month rolling average availability for the plant has exceeded 90%. The facility is capable of producing 480 megawatts of electricity, enough to meet the needs of half a million households. It is supplying power to the Baglan Energy Park, with the remaining electricity going to the U.K. national grid.

Built by GE on land leased from BP, the Baglan Bay Power Station features the world's first 50-hertz Frame 9H gas turbine, which operates in a single-shaft configuration. The site also includes a 33-megawatt combined heat and power plant based on a GE LM2500* aeroderivative gas turbine, which supplies electricity and steam and also provides the Baglan Bay complex with "black start" capability.

The Baglan Bay Power Station was officially dedicated in 2004, during a visit to the site by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and His Royal Highness Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh.

While Baglan Bay is the first global application of the H System gas turbine, the North American launch site for the 60-hertz version of the technology is the Inland Empire Energy Center in southern California, where two GE 107H combined-cycle systems are scheduled to enter service in the summer of 2008.

In addition to the Baglan Bay and Inland Empire projects, GE also is supplying three 50-hertz H System gas turbines to Tokyo Electric Power Company for the Futtsu Thermal Power Station in Japan. The 1,520-megawatt power plant is scheduled to enter commercial operation in 2008.

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