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Turkey orders FlexEfficiency combined solar-natural gas project
- 14 years ago (2011-06-09)
- Junior Isles
Turkey’s MetCap Energy Investments planning to build an integrated combined solar-natural gas plant, based on GE’s latest combined cycle technology.
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The site will use technology from eSolar Inc. and GE’s newly announced FlexEfficiency 50 gas turbine combined power plant. The new combination will have the capability to operate at a fuel-efficiency rate of greater than 70 per cent, better than the 61 per cent for the FlexEfficiency 50 combined cycle plant alone, GE said.
“This will be a power plant that combines solar, wind and, natural gas combined cycle technology under one roof ,” said Paul Browning, President and CEO of thermal products at GE Energy.
The plant, to be located in Karaman, Turkey, will have a capacity of about 530 MW at site conditions, enough to power more than 600 ,000 homes, Dr. Celal Metin, MetCap Energy Investments chairman, said.
“We have worked with every single party in industry who has something to offer in state-of-the-art, in gas turbines, steam turbines, solar sites and wind,” Dr Metin said.
The plant will integrate GE’s next generation 9FB gas turbine; a steam turbine, 22 MW of GE wind-turbines, and 50 MW of eSolar- concentrated thermal tower technology.
The plant is scheduled to start operation in 2015.