GE Supplying Gas Turbine-Generators to Three Facilities in Turkey.Business Editors BELFORT Belfort (bāfôr`, bĕ–, bĕl–), city (1990 pop. 51,913), capital of the Territory of Belfort (a department), E France, in Alsace. An important industrial and transportation center, it has large cotton mills and metalworks. , France--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 30, 2001 GE Power Systems has received a contract with Siemens Nederland Nederland (nē`dərlənd), city (1990 pop. 16,192), Jefferson co., SE Tex.; founded by Dutch settlers as a rice-farming community in 1897, inc. 1940. N.V. valued at approximately 48.5 million Euros to supply four MS6001B gas turbine-generators and auxiliary equipment Noun 1. auxiliary equipment - electronic equipment not in direct communication (or under the control of) the central processing unit off-line equipment to three combined-cycle facilities located in Adana, Canakkale and Mersin, Turkey. The facilities owned and operated by Enerjisa will produce a total of approximately 240 MW. The gas turbine-generators will be manufactured in the GE Power Systems Essen, Germany plant and are equipped to burn three fuels, natural gas, naphtha naphtha (năp`thə, năf`–), term usually restricted to a class of colorless, volatile, flammable liquid hydrocarbon mixtures. and light distillate dis·til·late n. A liquid condensed from vapor in distillation. distillate a product of distillation. . Under the terms of the contract, the Adana plant will receive two of the four gas turbine-generators which will enter commercial operation in December of 2001. The remaining two units will be shipped to the Canakkale and Mersin plants in November of 2001 and commercial operation scheduled to begin in August of 2002. Currently, 27 GE technology gas turbines are installed or on order for projects in Turkey, representing over 3,300 megawatts of power. About GE Power Systems GE Power Systems (http://www.ge.power.com) is one of the world's leading suppliers of power generator generator, in electricity, machine used to change mechanical energy into electrical energy. It operates on the principle of electromagnetic induction, discovered (1831) by Michael Faraday. technology, energy services and management systems with 2000 revenue of $15 billion. The business has the largest installed base of power generation equipment in the global energy industry. GE Power Systems provides equipment, service and management solutions across the power generation, oil and gas, distributed power and energy rental industries. |
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