Responsive, flexible and efficient power for Kuwait’s growing energy needs

GE’s H-Class combined-cycle power plant has industry-leading flexibility and full combined-cycle plant load in less than 30 minutes, making it a great complement to intermittent renewable sources.

The 9HA’s DLN 2.6e combustion system offers a step change in performance, emissions, and fuel flexibility. The DLN 2.6e maintains many of the elements of GE’s DLN 2.6+ combustion system and introduces advanced premixing for reduced NOx emissions while enabling high plant efficiency. Its advanced premixer enables expanded fuel flexibility to operate on both “rich” and “lean” gaseous fuels, a 50% hydrogen (H2) capability with a technology pathway to 100%, a gas turbine turndown to more than 30% load, and an optional park mode at 7-15% load, further reducing customers’ operating costs.

Installing a gas turbine in your plant shouldn’t involve any unknowns. Across our HA fleet, each original turbine is put through several rigorous full-speed, full-load (FSFL) validation test at our Greenville, South Carolina facility. This $200 million investment allows us to push the units beyond real-world conditions—running the turbines at 110% of their rated speeds at load and replicating the harshest conditions. This type of extreme testing is possible because the gas turbine operates independently from the restriction of the power grid, enabling a much wider testing envelope than an on-grid facility.

GE is the only original equipment manufacturer (OEM) that has been previously recognized by a 3^rd party for setting two world records for powering the most efficient plant in an H-class combined-cycle (CC) application: 63.08% gross CC efficiency at Chubu Electric’s Nishi Nagoya power plant in Japan (7HA, 60Hz), and 62.22% net CC efficiency at EDF’s Bouchain power plant in France (9HA, 50Hz).

In 2021, Southern Power Generation’s 1.4 GW Track 4A power plant, a natural gas-fired power plant in southern Malaysia—equipped with the first commercial GE 9HA gas turbines—was recognized by POWER Magazine as their “2021 Power Plant of the Year” and by Diesel & Gas Turbine WORLDWIDE as “Power Plant of the World”, a meaningful model for balancing climate awareness, energy affordability, and reliability.

In addition, GE’s HA technology was adopted at China Huadian Corp’s Juliangcheng plant to help accelerate the retirement of existing coal-fired capacity and replace it with new, highly efficient combined-cycle gas turbines—an important role that earned POWER Magazine’s “ReinventionAward”.

GE introduced the first HA-class gas turbine in 2014 with the first 50Hz HA in commercial operation in 2016. GE’s HA technology has been operating in our H-class fleet for ~5 years and has accumulated more than 1M operating hours (as of July 2021). GE’s HA portfolio is the world’s fastest-growing fleet in its class with more than 129 gas turbines ordered by 50+ customers across 20 countries.

GE’s H-class gas turbine packaging leverages a lean, modular, prefabricated approach engineered to achieve:

• Easier installation that reduces gas turbine installation schedule by up to 8 weeks
• Simplified unit maintenance with easy access to the gas turbine accessory systems
• Increased onsite safety
• Lower project risk
• More efficient inspection and maintenance
• Reduced gas turbine installation labor (about 13K man hours)

The gas turbine enclosure features modular architecture with valves, piping, and electrical systems packaged into stackable modules, which allows for simultaneous installations as well as reduced safety concerns and delays due to interfering tasks.