Decarbonization technology

Solutions for Saudi Arabia

  • Services for 7E gas turbines
  • Aeroderivative gas turbines
  • H-class gas turbines
  • Software solutions
  • Grid solutions
  • Power conversion and storage

Improving your performance

With more renewable energy sources being added to the grid, it’s more business-critical than ever that you 7E plant can operate in new and flexible ways to reduce emissions and stay competitive. GE Vernova has a suite of upgrades to help expand your operational flexibility, generate low-cost peak MWs, increase hours and starts, and enable your gas turbine to run on tri-fuels.

Decarbonization

More power, less emissions

Our upgrade solutions can boost the reliability and flexibility of your gas turbines while reducing their environmental footprint—to help meet or exceed current emissions regulations.

Renewables integration

Faster starts, lower costs and greater fuel flexibility

If your power plant’s 7E gas turbines are running as peaker units for more seasonal use when grid demand is high, you need solutions to help increase your output and heat rate, achieve faster starts, extend maintenance intervals to reduce your O&M costs, and make your gas turbines more fuel flexible to help integrate intermittent renewable power. Browse our offerings here.

Uninterrupted power

Increase your reliability, availability, efficiency and output

If your power plant’s 7E gas turbines are running all the time, you need them to be reliable, available, and efficient with the highest possible output. GE Vernova has a wide range of 7E gas turbine upgrades that will help improve your overall combustion capability. Browse our offerings here.

Featuring industry-leading performance, GE Vernova’s aeroderivative gas turbines can help address the challenges of the energy trilemma—affordability, availability, and sustainability—by operating concurrently with both conventional and renewable energy. With the ability to reach full power in five minutes, their plug-and-play nature provides quick, flexible, efficient power where it is needed. GE Vernova’s aeroderivative gas turbines are also fuel flexible, with the ability to operate on an 85/15 hydrogen/natural gas blend—helping pave the way for Saudi Arabia’s hydrogen-powered energy future.

Browse our aeroderivative gas turbines for Saudi Arabia below.

The LM2500XPRESS* can run on 35% hydrogen, and when an SCR is added to the unit to reduce emissions even further, NOx can be reduced to 2.5 ppm and CO to 4ppm.

 

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With the LM2500XPRESS gas turbine, you will benefit from:

  • Up to 38.5% efficiency
  • 35% hydrogen capable
  • 99.5% reliability
  • 98.7% availability
  • 34 MW of additional power

 

The LM6000 offers 99%+ reliability and 98% availability. It can start up in 5 minutes, and its dual-fuel capabilities provides fuel flexibility and helps customers meet emissions limits.

 

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With the LM6000 gas turbine, you will benefit from:

  • Up to 41.4% net efficiency
  • Over 99% reliability
  • Over 98% availability
  • 5-minute start time
  • 53 MW of additional power

 

Introducing the LM2500XPRESS: Modularity, reimagined

With up to 95% assembly in the factory, the LM2500XPRESS was created for speed and simplicity.

Powering Tanzania

See how the LM6000 aeroderivative gas turbines are helping the Songas power plant in Tanzania provide power when hydro is scarce.

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Enabling Saudi Arabia’s energy transition

Saudi Arabia has been making extensive efforts to become a key player in the transition towards lower carbon energy sources. While the Saudi Vision 2030 plan calls for a 35% reduction in carbon emissions and a 50/50 energy mix of renewables and natural gas, the Kingdom has also committed to achieving net zero carbon emissions by 2060. Read on to learn how aeroderivative gas turbines can help Saudi Arabia reach its net zero goal.

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Let’s work together to reduce emissions and help Saudi Arabia become greener for the future.

Today, our H-class gas turbines can burn up to 50% hydrogen by volume when blended with natural gas, with a path to 100% hydrogen.

We have more than 25 years of experience running H-class gas turbines.

GE Vernova is committed to helping meet these goals with hydrogen-ready gas turbines and upgrades.

Saudi Arabia is working towards a 35% reduction in greenhouse gases.

H-class gas turbines for Saudi Arabia

We introduced our H-class gas turbine technology to the industry more than 25 years ago. Our HA technology has accumulated more than 2 million operating hours at more than 50 customer sites globally, and 2/3 of our HA operating fleet has 16K+ operating hours.

Today, GE Vernova's H-class gas turbine portfolio has the capability to burn up to 50% by volume of hydrogen when blended with natural gas, with a path to 100% hydrogen.

7HA gas turbines are up to 50% hydrogen (H2) capable with a technology pathway to 100%. The 7HA.03 gas turbine is the most efficient 60Hz gas turbine in the world. This latest technology features more than 64% combined-cycle efficiency, higher than any other competing technology available today. 

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With the 7HA gas turbine, you will benefit from:

  • Higher combined-cycle efficiency
  • Up to 50% hydrogen capable
  • Operational flexibility—operating with natural gas or liquids
  • Industry-leading reliability and availability
  • Up to 430 MW of additional power

 

Optimized aeroderivative performance

To optimize aeroderivative turbine performance in near real-time, GE Vernova's Autonomous Tuning solution uses AI/ML-powered digital twins, adjusting temperatures and fuel flows to maintain CO2 and NOx emissions within acceptable limits. This technology adapts to changes in ambient temperature, fuel properties, and degradation. It helps ensure optimal performance across various climates, including Saudi Arabia's desert and subtropical highland regions, despite temperature fluctuations and fuel variations. This allows for more power with lower emissions. 

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Benefits:

  • 0.5% to 1% reduction in fuel consumption/heat rate/ CO2 emissions 
  • Up to 14% reduction in CO emissions 
  • Up to 12% reduction in NOx emissions 
  • 0 manual tunings and associated downtime 
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Enhanced availability

Identifying inefficiencies and potential malfunctions in equipment before they escalate is possible with predictive analytics and early anomaly detection. A proactive maintenance strategy helps ensure assets operate more efficiently, reducing unnecessary fuel consumption and emissions. GE Vernova’s equipment downtime prevention software, SmartSignal, helps companies to shift from reactive to predictive maintenance. With AI/ML powered predictive analytics,  Saudi Arabia can maintain improved availability for their growing energy demands. SmartSignal can also integrate with other enterprise systems, allowing of flexible and improved data flow and insights. 

Measure, don’t estimate

Static and manual data entry for emissions management is time-consuming and problematic for staying on top of regulatory compliance, data accuracy, and timely reporting. Heavy industrials need a more robust solution to help confidently measure, manage and operationalize their decarbonization strategy using verified data. GE Vernova’s CERius™  Emissions Management Software helps companies overcome common integration challenges by centralizing data collection, improving data accuracy, and integrating with existing systems for near real-time data updates and reduced data silos.  CERius enables organizations to make more informed decisions regarding emission reduction strategies to help companies turn commitments into reality. 

GridBeats: A comprehensive portfolio of solutions

GE Vernova's GridBeats* is a suite of software-defined automation solutions designed to modernize and digitalize grid operations. These solutions are engineered to enhance grid resilience and reliability through faster controls, AI/ML-based automation, and improved cybersecurity.  

By providing deeper visibility and control over the grid, GridBeats enables utilities and industrial customers to ensure a stable and efficient energy supply, especially amidst the growing integration of renewable energy sources and aging infrastructure. 

The GridBeats suite includes five distinct solutions, each targeting specific challenges in grid management:

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  • Zonal autonomous control (ZAC): Enhances resilience by dividing the grid network into autonomous zones, allowing for adaptive, self-managed recovery during disruptions.
  • Integrated digital substation (IDSS): Utilizes software-defined protection and control with advanced wide-area applications for rapid deployment, increasing reliability and flexibility.
  • EnergyAPM: Reduces downtime and maintenance costs through predictive and prescriptive diagnostics, leveraging both online and offline operational data alongside physics-based digital twins.
  • Device management (DvM): Offers increased visibility across fleets and individual assets with features like auto-detection, remote provisioning, and health monitoring.
  • Cybersecurity: Provides a comprehensive suite of solutions and services designed to enhance awareness, network monitoring, threat intrusion detection, and rapid incident response to cyber threats.

Collectively, these solutions empower utilities to manage their networks more effectively, ensuring a reliable and resilient grid capable of meeting current demands and future challenges.

Optimize energy management to lower bills and control consumption

Organizational expenses allocate 5-25% to energy payments, and up to 15% is misspent during operations. Energy is responsible for 60% of global greenhouse gas emissions, with industries contributing at least 20%.  

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Energy Efficiency Solution (EES), a groundbreaking software, transforms energy management, optimizes consumption, and reduces GHG emissions. It's the premier approach to lower energy bills, monitor consumption, and track associated GHG emissions. 

  • Up to 20% cost savings for all industrial sectors
  • Real-time GHG reduction
  • Improved efficiency
  • Regulatory compliance through IPMVP, ISO 50001, and ISO 14046 standards

Supporting the transition to a cleaner grid

As the global energy mix shifts toward renewable sources, ensuring grid stability and reliability has become more challenging. The intermittency of wind and solar power creates fluctuations that must be managed effectively. GE Vernova’s rotating stabilizers—the Power Conversion and Storage business’ range of synchronous condensers—provide a CO2-free, cost-effective solution to replicate the synchronous inertia response traditionally supplied by thermal power plants.

Reliable and efficient grid support

GE Vernova’s rotating stabilizers are high-inertia rotating machines designed to enhance grid stability.  

Benefits: 

✔ Deliver synchronous inertia to support frequency stability. 
✔ Generate and absorb reactive power to balance grid performance. 
✔ Provide the same inertia as fossil fuel plants without emissions or high operating costs. 
✔ Enable flexible deployment based on system operator needs.

By integrating rotating stabilizers, operators can reduce emissions, lower costs, and maintain power quality, helping to meet sustainability goals while helping ensure grid reliability.

Learn more:

Explore our rotating stabilizers

Discover our broader power quality solutions

Local presence

Technology, talent and services

GE Vernova has long supported Saudi Arabia with the latest power generation technologies, talent development and economic diversification programs, and value-add exports. With up to 470 GE Vernova gas turbines already providing generation capacity of over 50 GW in the Kingdom, and one of the world’s largest gas turbine service centers situated locally, GE Vernova is providing for our customers throughout Saudi Arabia—and beyond.

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GEMTEC Campus

Driving energy supply chain localization

GE Vernova's GEMTEC Campus in Dammam is playing a strong role in helping to achieve the goals outlined under Saudi Vision 2030, by nurturing local talent and suppliers, further diversifying Saudi Arabia’s economic base, promoting exports, and much more. Most recently, GE Vernova acquired Dussur’s shares in GESAT, the Kingdom's first manufacturing facility for advanced heavy duty gas turbines, which is part of the Campus in Dammam. This acquisition strengthens GE Vernova’s capability to manufacture innovative and highly efficient gas turbines and components in Saudi Arabia.

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How a Saudi team modernized a power plant safely and ahead of schedule

Riyadh’s PP8 Power Plant saw the first turbine outage planned and executed by an all Saudi GE Vernova team, paving the way for a talented and promising generation, and a New Era of Energy.

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