The US company General Electric has been awarded a contract by China Energy Engineering Group-Guangdong Power Engineering Co Ltd to supply a gas turbine for re-powering the unit 4 of Power Development Board’s (PDB) Ghorashal Power Plant.
The existing gas-fired boiler of unit 4 at Ghorashal plant will be substituted with GE’s advanced 9F.03 AGP Gas Turbine with Advanced Gas Path (AGP) technology.
GE will also provide advisory services for installation, performance testing and two years of operational spares during warranty period under the scope of this project.
In line with Bangladesh’s power generation expansion plans to add around 12GW electricity by 2018, the re-powering of Ghorashal is an important milestone as it will result in an addition of more than 200MW of clean energy output and an increased efficiency of more than 20%.
Bangladesh is at the cusp of rapid transformation, and electricity is one of the key drivers that is steering the rapid industrialisation of the country.
The re-powering of Ghorashal power station located at Narsingdi district will play a pivotal role in achieving the energy goals of the country.
Collectively, the re-powering of unit 4, close on the heels of Unit 3, will result in an addition of more than 400MW of clean energy to the national grid.
The re-powering will add 25 years to the overall lifetime of the power plant, increase its efficiency from the existing 31% to more than 53% and improve the overall output of the plant to 409MW from the current 170MW.
GE is a power generation pioneer with more than 60 years in gas turbine technology and manufacturing. Approximately one third of the world’s installed power base includes GE equipment, with more than 28,000 power generating assets, representing about 1,600GW of installed capacity in 120 countries.
GE has been a partner to Bangladesh for more than 45 years, and today more than 30 GE turbines are installed in the country generating more than 1.9GW of power.
Thursday, April 25, 2024
