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GE Power and FieldCore successfully restart production at Metahara Sugar Factory in record-breaking 20 days

March 26, 2018
  • Factory’s 5000-person workforce return to production lines after a 7-month plant downtime
  • Successful execution solves sugar scarcity for Ethiopia’s more than 100 million people

ETHIOPIA, Addis Ababa - March 26, 2018 - GE Power and FieldCore, the company’s independent field services execution arm, have successfully restarted Metahara Sugar Factory in Ethiopia, seven months after the plant was severely damaged by a major thunderstorm.

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Sweet Smell Of Success: For Ethiopian Sugar Factory, A Multinational Push To Fix Turbines Pays Off

Samantha Shaddock
March 26, 2018
By the time an emergency turbine-service team arrived in Metahara, Ethiopia, in late November 2017, the Ethiopian Sugar Corp.’s damaged sugar refinery had been idle since July, cutting off 20 percent of the country’s sugar production and hampering its exports. As the team drove in an SUV through the sugarcane fields surrounding the 50-year-old plant, a nearly five-hour-drive from the capital of Addis Ababa, a military escort came out to speed up their journey into the factory, where tables were laid with a feast for the arriving engineers.
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GE to Help Increase Output and Reliability of Shell Petroleum Development Company's Afam VI plant in Nigeria

February 13, 2018
  • GE’s Services Agreement to Provide Total Plant Solutions for the 650MW Afam VI Combined-Cycle Plant
  • GE’s MXL2 Upgrade Will Add 30MW Capacity, Equal to Power approximately 200,000 Nigerian homes
  • Deal Will help Improve Availability, Reliability and Reduce Operational Costs of the Facility​

 

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GE & Marinus Energy to build first-of-its-kind Waste Gas to Power plant in Ghana

February 12, 2018
  • 25 MW pilot power plant will utilize Isopentane gas as a fuel source
  • New plant will add equivalent power needed to supply more than 100.000 Ghanaian homes
  • TM2500 proven technology will provide secure, flexible and reliable power
  • New TM2500 order will further expand existing fleet of 10 units in the country

ACCRA, GHANA - February 12, 2018- As developing countries embrace innovation that will guarantee faster solutions to energy challenges, GE Power (NYSE: GE) and Marinus

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GE's Hardware and Digital Upgrades Help Increase Efficiency and Output at Azito Power Plant in the Ivory Coast

November 15, 2017
  • Project at Azito Power Plant in Abidjan Marks GE’s First GT13E2 MXL2 Gas Turbine Upgrade in Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Plant’s Output Will Increase by up to 30 Megawatts, Helping the Country to Meet Its Electricity Needs
  • Upgrade Includes GE’s Predix*-Based Operations Optimization Solution to Improve Overall Plant Performance

ABIDJAN, IVORY COAST-November 15, 2017-To improve performance and provide valuable insights and visibility into plant and turbine operations, GE’s Power Services business (NYSE: G

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Baker Hughes, A GE Company Awarded Second Major Contract For Eni East Africa's Coral South Flng

August 30, 2017

·         Rotating equipment including aeroderivative gas turbines for power and gas refrigeration process of the new Floating Liquefied Natural Gas (FLNG) facility, the first-ever built in Africa, for Africa

·         This is the second major contract award for Coral South FLNG project, with BHGE also providing leading subsea technologies and services for the development of Rovuma basin Area 4 gas resources

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GE leads the end to end power technology debate at PowerGen and DistribuTech 2017

July 19, 2017
  • GE’s George Njenga shows how new technologies across the electricity value network are helping countries meet their electricity demands
  • Sustaining these investments is key to assuring Africa’s growth

Johannesburg, SOUTH AFRICA - 19 July 2017 - Technology available today can be employed to create reliable, sustainable, localized and more efficient energy networks.

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GE Signs Multiyear Agreement to Upgrade Gas Turbines at Songas Ltd.'s Ubungo Power Plant in Tanzania

June 01, 2017
  • Fleet360* Upgrades will Help Improve Plant Efficiency by approximately 3 percent and Help Ensure Long-Term, Reliable Operation of the Plant’s Gas Turbines
  • 180-Megawatt Ubungo Facility Currently Provides up to 25 Percent of the Power in Tanzania

 

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GE to supply power generation technology for Ghana's 400 MW Bridge Power project

May 04, 2017
  • 400 megawatt (MW) greenfield project will be Africa’s first liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) fired power plant and world’s largest plant of its kind
  • Project will provide enough electricity for the equivalent of up to 17 percent of Ghana’s capacity and address the long-term energy requirements of the country
  • Fuel-flexible plant can run on LPG, natural gas and diesel

ACCRA, GHANA - May 4, 2017-GE (NYSE: GE) announced today that it will supply the power generation equipment for the Bridge Power plant project in Tema, Ghana.

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GE announces order with AE Energia to bring fast, digital power to Angola

May 02, 2017
  • Fast, trailer-mounted solutions will bring 200 megawatts (MW) of power, the equivalent needed for up to an additional 15% of Angola’s population
  • Includes GE’s Asset Performance Management software solutions from Predix
  • GE Power for Angola program to provide technology and services for additional power to grid

LUANDA, ANGOLA - May 2, 2017-GE (NYSE: GE) today announced an order from AE Energia for fast, digital power in Angola.

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