Partnering with TPC to meet Taiwan's energy needs
Bringing fast, flexible, and secure power to Taiwan

"We’re pleased to be working with technology providers such as GE Gas Power as part of our goals to accelerate the coal-to-gas transition, manage energy shortages, stabilize the grid, and support the growth of renewables in Taiwan. We trust that GE’s aeroderivative gas power technology will help provide fast, flexible and more sustainable power for the people of Taiwan."

Taiwan’s government has set an ambitious goal to phase out all nuclear power sources by 2025 and increase the island's use of natural gas to 50%. This rapidly changing energy mix is creating opportunities for Taiwan to diversify into fast, flexible, more efficient gas technologies that will help balance the island's electricity grid and help meet future demand. In September 2020, GE Gas Power announced that it was selected as the successful bidder for the 6,500 MW Hsinta and Taichung combined-cycle power plants initiated by Taiwan Power Company (TPC).

"We selected Chiahui Power Plant as a model site for Southern Taiwan for the demonstrated excellence in training management, the permit to work management system and safe lifting operations, which we recommend as a best practice in construction."

Anticipating a supply shortage if hydropower runs dry, the state’s Department of Water Resources (DWR) acted as procurement agent, commissioning four 30-MW GE TM2500 aeroderivative gas turbines. 

GE built in selective catalytic reduction scrubbers (SCRs) to the turbines for a markedly low NOX emission rating of 2.5 PPM (opposed to the average of 15). To date, this tech innovation with SCRs is the first of its kind.

"With GE as our partner, the benefits begin even before the power is online. The modular design configuration of GE’s 7HA technology simplifies construction and reduces installation time. Given the growth in Anyang and our need for efficient energy, that’s a real advantage."

Japan’s Chubu Electric Nishi-Nagoya power plant Block-1 was recognized as the world’s most efficient combined-cycle power plant, based on achieving 63.08 percent gross efficiency running three 7HA.01 gas turbines from GE. The gas turbines are providing more than 1,188 MW of power to the grid, enough to provide electricity to the equivalent of about 2.7 million homes in Japan.

"The targeted efficiency of this project is about 62% while it was only 40% in the old facility. Efficiency has increased by 1.5 times.”

With countries all over the world looking for ways to decarbonize energy and fight climate change, GE Gas Power just helped the US take an important first step. Together with New Fortress Energy, GE Gas Power announced that Long Ridge in Ohio will be the first purpose-built hydrogen-burning power plant in the United States and the first worldwide to blend hydrogen in a GE H-class gas turbine. The plant utilizes a GE 7HA.02 combustion turbine, which can burn between 15-20% hydrogen by volume in the gas stream initially, with the capability to transition to 100% hydrogen over time.

PSEG Fossil, a subsidiary of PSEG Power, was seeking to retire the four existing units at its 70-year-old Sewaren Generating Station in northern New Jersey. PSEG Fossil has replaced units 1, 2, 3, and 4 of the old Sewaren plant with a new 538-MW combined-cycle power plant—Sewaren 7—featuring GE’s 7HA.02 gas turbine. 

"Our new Sewaren 7 plant and the 7HA.02 gas turbine will help provide the market industry with more reliable and cleaner power at a lower cost of generation while also supporting the local economy with employment opportunities and tax revenues."

"By utilizing the most-advanced, most-efficient gas turbine in GE’s 60-hertz fleet, the 7HA.03 gas turbine, the FPL Dania Beach Clean Energy Center will allow FPL to continue delivering to customers the affordable energy they expect from us 24/7 to power their homes and businesses."

"Having an additional of up to 34 MW is significant for our operation and will allow us to deliver a better service to our customers and to the millions of tourists who visit us every year. On top of that, this kind of technology could enable us to respond more quickly to natural disasters like Hurricane Dorian."