GE Wins Grand Coulee Generator Upgrade Project.Business Editors The U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Reclamation has awarded GE Power Systems a $3.8 million contract for a generator refurbishment project at the Grand Coulee Powerplant in Washington State. Located at Grand Coulee Dam Grand Coulee Dam (k  `lē), 550 ft (168 m) high and 4,173 ft (1,272 m) long, on the Columbia River, N central Wash. on the Columbia River, the Grand Coulee hydroelectric power plant is the largest power production facility in North America, generating an average of 21 billion kWh annually. It consists of three power plants - the Left, Right and Third - that supply electricity to the Pacific Northwest. GE will supply two identical 125 MVA MVA abbr. motor vehicle accident MVA Motor vehicular/vehicle accident, see there , 13.8 kV generator stator stator: see generator; motor, electric. cores and windings for the refurbishment project. One stator core will be installed and commissioned by GE at the Left Powerhouse G7 unit. The second generator core is planned for future installation at another powerhouse unit. This project represents the first use of a modern-design, single-turn bar winding at Grand Coulee Left Powerhouse and is expected to significantly improve generator reliability and maintainability. The equipment will be built at GE Hydro in Lachine, Quebec, Canada, and will begin shipping to site in January, 2003. Installation by GE Installation and Repair Service of Salt Lake City, Utah For ships of the United States Navy of the same name, see . Salt Lake City is the capital and the most populous city of the U.S. state of Utah. The name of the city is often shortened to Salt Lake, or its initials, S.L.C. , is expected to be completed by the start of the third quarter 2003. The unit is scheduled to be returned to commercial operation in February, 2004. In a concurrent project at Grand Coulee for the Bureau of Reclamation, scheduled for completion in 2007, GE is also replacing 18 Francis turbine runners at the Left and Right powerhouses. The Grand Coulee Dam, the centerpiece of the Columbia Basin project Columbia basin project, central Wash., a multipurpose development of the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation providing irrigation, hydroelectric power, and flood control. , was completed in 1942. The Left and Right powerhouses, with nine generator units each, were put into service between 1941 and 1950. The hydropower hy·dro·pow·er n. Hydroelectric power. plants are used as peaking facilities by the Bonneville Power Administration The Bonneville Power Administration (BPA) is a U.S. self-financed federal agency which transmits and sells wholesale electricity in Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and western Montana. The BPA is part of the U.S. Department of Energy, and is headquartered in Portland, Oregon. . About GE Power Systems GE Power Systems (www.gepower.com) is one of the world's leading suppliers of power generation technology, energy services and management systems, with 2001 revenues exceeding $20 billion. The business has the largest installed fleet of power generation equipment in the global energy industry. GE Power Systems provides equipment, services and management solutions across the power generation, oil and gas, distributed power and energy rental industries. |
|
||||||||||||||||
Printer friendly
Cite/link
Email
Feedback
Reader Opinion