GE unveiled today its new FlexEfficiency 60 power generation portfolio engineered to harness natural gas and enable greater use of renewable energy.
The FlexEfficiency 60 portfolio combines record-breaking efficiency, which will reduce emissions and save money (compared to prior GE configurations), along with unprecedented flexibility, which will enable utilities to deliver power quickly when it is needed and to ramp down when it is not, balancing the grid cost-effectively.
“Today’s announcement positions GE with the broadest, most comprehensive gas turbine portfolio, delivering a combination of record-setting efficiency and flexibility. Our expanded portfolio of large block gas turbines enables us to meet the complex and diverse energy and resource needs of our global customers today and in the future.
GE also announced that the company has secured nearly $1.2 billion in new orders for FlexEfficiency 60 technology for projects in the United States, Saudi Arabia and Japan, demonstrating strong international demand for technology that can provide highly efficient baseload power and pair natural gas with renewables.
At the heart of the new portfolio is the ecomagination*-qualified FlexEfficiency 60 Combined-Cycle Power Plant, the most flexible and most efficient power plant of its kind with the capability to reach greater than 61 percent thermal efficiency. This record-breaking efficiency will save fuel, reduce emissions and save money for power companies. Like its 50-hertz counterpart, the FlexEfficiency 50 Plant introduced in 2011, the FlexEfficiency 60 Plant is able to rapidly increase or decrease its power output in response to fluctuations in wind and solar power, enabling the integration of more renewable resources onto the power grid.
Source: Business Wire.