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22 September 2004 - GE Energy's aeroderivative gas turbine services group announced today that it has signed a contract with E.ON Benelux Generation n.v., to supply two new LM2500+ DLE aeroderivative gas turbines with six stage power turbines to re-power existing Rolls Royce Olympus packages at the Leiden Power Station in Leiden, The Netherlands.
Under the terms of the contract, GE Energy will also supply two new Micronet control systems and engineering, project management and installation services to adapt E.ON Benelux's existing balance of plant equipment to accommodate the GE aeroderivative gas turbines. This is the first time GE has converted a non-GE power plant to GE aeroderivative technology.
E.ON's Leiden Power Station is a natural gas-fired combined heat and power (CHP) operation consisting of heat recovery steam generators and a steam turbine. It supplies the towns of Leiden and Leiderdorp with district heating and also produces power for the grid.
GE Energy's DLE technology LM2500+ aeroderivative gas turbines will continue to operate using natural gas and will reduce NOx and carbon monoxide (CO) emissions levels to 25 ppm or below. The current Rolls Royce Olympus gas turbines operate unabated. With the two LM2500+ DLE gas turbines, the plant will produce approximately 100,000 lbs./hr. of steam per gas turbine.
"At ISO conditions, GE Energy's gas turbines will generate approximately 29 megawatts per gas turbine and about 13-14 megawatts on the steam turbine, an improvement over E.ON's current site of about 35 percent on the gas turbines," said Dan Werrell, general manager of services operations for GE Energy's aeroderivative division. "In the past, we have retrofitted existing LM technology gas turbines to accommodate newer GE technology, but this is the first time we have converted a non-GE site."
GE and E.ON Benelux have also agreed to develop a maintenance management service agreement, covering scheduled and unscheduled work through 2010. Commissioning of the new units is scheduled to occur in late November 2004 for the first unit and June 2005 for the second unit. E.ON Benelux supplies electrical power and district heating to distributors and major customers as well as energy related services to industrial clients in the Netherlands.
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