LAS VEGAS, NEVADA (December 9, 2003) --- GE Power Systems is supplying one Frame 9FA gas turbine-generator to Energiaki Thessalonikis, owned by Hellenic Petroleum, for a new combined-cycle power plant being built in the coastal city of Thessalonika, in northern Greece.
Thessalonika, Greece's second largest city after Athens, is an important commercial port and regional capital of Macedonia.
The GE gas turbine will be housed in the new plant at Hellenic Petroleum's industrial complex. GE will also provide technical advisors for the turbine installation. The engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contractor for the plant project is VA TECH of Austria.
The Frame 9FA turbine will be manufactured at GE's facility in Belfort, France and shipped to Greece in April 2004. The plant, which will use natural gas as the primary fuel and distillate oil as a backup, is expected to begin commercial operation in July 2005.
The gas turbine will have an output of approximately 260 megawatts. A boiler will convert the gas turbine's waste heat to steam to drive a steam turbine, which will add 140 megawatts for a total combined-cycle plant output of approximately 400 megawatts.
The Frame 9FA gas turbine for the Thessalonika project will be equipped with GE's advanced Dry Low NO
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