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2 May 2006 - GE Energy has expanded the range of services it is providing for the Trinity Power Limited independent power plant in Trinidad, signing an operation & maintenance (O&M) agreement that includes maintenance of balance-of-plant equipment at the facility.
Located in Dow Village, Couva, Trinidad, West Indies, the 225 MW, gas-fired plant sells all of its output to the Trinidad and Tobago Electricity Commission (T&TEC). Featuring efficient and low-emission GE Frame 7EA gas turbines, the plant is the lowest cost energy provider in Trinidad and Tobago.
The Trinity Power plant began commercial service in 1999. In 2004, GE and Trinity Power signed a 17-year contractual service agreement (CSA) covering the three GE gas turbine-generators at the plant. The recently signed five-year O&M agreement covers the additional equipment at the plant including GE Prolec transformers, a 132-KV switchyard, a fire suppression system, a closed circuit cooling water system, a 1500 kW standby diesel generator and the natural gas system.
"As part of the O&M agreement with Trinity Power, GE guarantees that the plant equipment will continue to operate with reliability, high availability and efficiency," said Dan Heintzelman, vice president of GE Energy's services business. "This plant is essential for T&TEC to meet its growing load requirements, and GE is committed to providing quick and efficient responses to any maintenance issues."
Under the previously signed CSA, maintenance outages for the three gas turbine-generator units at the plant have been scheduled for June 2006, February 2007 and May 2007. Trinity Power and GE also may consider potential upgrades involving the application of new technology during these outages.
Meanwhile, GE Energy has won an order to supply a Frame 6FA gas turbine-generator for the expansion of a combined-cycle/district heating plant in Zagreb, Croatia. Hrvatska Elektroprivreda the Croatian electric power utility, is the owner of the plant while HEP-Proizvoidnja is the plant operator.
Joining two other GE 6FA gas turbines that have been operating at the TE-TO Zagreb site since 2000, the new gas turbine will form a key part of the Block-L Combined-Cycle Unit that will produce 100 MW of electrical power in combined-cycle operation, and 80 megawatts of thermal power to be used for district heating.
"This project will mark the seventh GE gas turbine to be installed in Croatia, and we are pleased that HEP once again has placed its confidence in GE to provide the core technology in the next phase of development at this power plant," said Rod Christie, Regional Executive of GE Energy
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