Abu Dhabi, November 4, 2003: -- GE Power Systems has signed a Contractual Service Agreement (CSA) with ITM Operation and Maintenance Company Limited (ITM O&M Co. Ltd.) for the Umm Al Nar Power and Water Plant in Abu Dhabi. Valued at more than US$200 million, the agreement calls for GE to provide planned maintenance services for a period of up to 23 years for the five GE Frame 9FA gas turbines at the Umm Al Nar site.
SALZBERGEN, GERMANY (October 31, 2003) -- GE Wind Energy, a unit of GE Power Systems, has supplied four 1.5-megawatt wind turbines for Wind Farm Gembloux - Sombreffe in Belgium. The new six-megawatt wind project, located in the Gembloux region near Namur, Belgium, entered operation this week and is providing power for the Belgian grid.
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FLORENCE, ITALY (October 30, 2003) -- GE Oil & Gas, a unit of GE Power Systems, has been awarded a contract of approximately US$90 million to supply gas turbine-driven compressors for the Tangguh LNG Project in Indonesia.
The equipment will be used in the first compressor train for the new LNG facility, which will be constructed in Bintuni Bay Regency, Papua Province, Indonesia.
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LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM (October 28, 2003) -- The Gunfleet Sands Offshore Wind Plant, a 108-megawatt proposal slated for development off the east coast of England, last week became one of four new offshore wind projects to attain government consent. The projects were approved under the Transport and Works Act of 1992 as part of the U.K.'s ongoing program to significantly increase its supply of wind-generated electricity over the next several years.
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BELFORT, FRANCE (October 28, 2003) -- Centre d'Ingenierie Technique de Paris, a unit of France's state-owned electricity company Electricité de France, has selected GE Power Systems to provide a gas turbine-generator for a new power plant at Jarry, Guadeloupe in the French Caribbean.
The Jarry Sud project is being built to increase Guadeloupe's power generation capabilities. Guadeloupe is a French-governed cluster of islands located in the eastern Caribbean Sea, southeast of Puerto Rico.
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ATLANTA, GEORGIA (October 27, 2003) -- GE Hydro has received a contract from Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) to rewind one of two generators at the Middle Fork Powerhouse, a hydro station on the Middle Fork American River in Placer County, California.
GE is supplying new windings for unit 2 at the Middle Fork site, a Toshiba 13.8 kV, 68 MVA hydro generator. GE Hydro rewound unit 1 in 1998. Under a separate contract signed last year, GE Hydro also is replacing the runners for the two Pelton turbines at the powerhouse.