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20 September 2006 -- GE Energy's technology has been selected for one of the largest solar power projects in Asia, a 3-MW facility being developed at Yong Gwang, Korea.
GE will supply its 200-watt solar power modules for the project, along with balance-of-system equipment. KD Solar Co., Ltd. of Seongnam City, Korea, the EPC contractor for the project, is responsible for engineering, system design and installation.
The solar installation is being developed by Korea Hydro Nuclear Power Co., which supplies more than 40 percent of Korea's power. Electricity generated by the Yong Gwang solar power plant will be transmitted to the national grid.
In Australia, a new coal mine methane (CMM) power plant, developed and owned by renewable energy developer Envirogen Pty Ltd., has begun operating at one of Australia's largest coal mines, the Oaky Creek Colliery in central Queensland. GE Energy supplied 12 of the Jenbacher generator sets. The plant is providing power to the regional grid while helping to offset the mine's methane gas emissions.
The recent startup of Oaky Creek was noted September 20 during the official launch of GE's ecomagination program in Australia.
GE said that the Jenbacher CMM technology targets a key industrial source point of methane emissions, a greenhouse gas, by using the "wasted" source of energy from the nation's coal mines to produce electricity. Australia is the world's fourth largest coal producer.
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