GE Energy lands $500M in contracts in Bahrain project - The Business Review (Albany):

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The country is planning additional capacit y expansions over the next 20 years for its increasing power which are growing at ratees of 7 percent to 10 percent a officialsthere said. GE Energy is supplying two steam turbines andfour heavy-duty Frame 9FA gas which are equipped with GE advancede emission-control technologies. GE also contractec to service the equipment for20 years. When the plant is expected toprovide 1,250 megawattws of power, which would accountr for 30 percent of the kingdom’s existinb electricity grid output, as well as 48 millioh imperial gallons of desalinated water per day.
“Worldwide, we are seeinhg a trend toward the integration of power and waterd production at asingle site,” said Steves Bolze, president and CEO of GE Energy’a Power and Water business. “Water and energy are inextricablgy linked; energy is needed to generates water and water is needed to produce GE hasthe scale, diversity and expertise to effectively pursue and manage power and watetr projects around the world.” Under the GE Energy will supply parts, repairss and provide field services for plannefd and unplanned maintenance for the gas turbine-generatorsz and accessory equipment.
The two steam turbines will be manufacturesin Schenectady; the four gas turbine will be built at in S.C. They primarily will be powered bynatural gas. GE Energyu has enough employees to handle productiob of the two turbinesw that will be made at theSchenectady plant. “We don’t forecast having to add jobs for this,” said Tom spokesman for GE Energy. It’s GE’z first installation of the F-classs gas turbines in the Kingdomof