GE Vernova announces strategic initiatives with Iraq to strength power sector

• 14 days ago (2024-04-19)
• David Flin

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GE Vernova has announced that it has launched multiple strategic initiatives with Iraq to boost generation and enhance the availability of power supply across the country. The initiatives will strengthen and modernise power infrastructure, enable the transition to lower carbon, and promote economic development.

They include:

• A letter of intent with the Ministry of Energy to build 3 GW of CCGT plants, and to convert two sites, Samawa and Nasiriya from simple to combined cycle, and to expand capacity at the Al Mansouria gas-fired power plant.
• Five year service and upgrade agreements to enhance availability and efficiency of over 70 turbines and generators at 18 power plants, with a total capacity of 7.5 GW.
• An MOU with Iraq’s Ministry of Oil to explore the accelerated use of flared gas.

As part of the new initiatives, GE Vernova also plans to set up a Monitoring and Diagnostics Centre to continuously monitor core power assets across 18 sites powered by GE Vernova’s 9E gas turbines.