RWE chooses GE for equipment upgrades, digital solutions
BADEN, SWITZERLAND — RWE Generation has selected GE’s Power Services business to provide plant equipment upgrades and advanced digital solutions, aiming to enhance the competitiveness, reliability and flexibility of its Great Yarmouth power station in Norfolk, UK.
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“When first commissioned in 2002, the Great Yarmouth facility was one of the UK’s most efficient power stations. Since then, the power industry has grown and evolved, with newer power plants—like our stations at Pembroke and Staythorpe—allowing for more efficient and reliable power generation,” said Steve Glover, director of hard coal and gas power plant UK, RWE Generation. “At RWE, we contemplated multiple operating scenarios for our Great Yarmouth plant. Ultimately, we decided to implement GE’s technologies and digital solutions to improve plant performance, output, efficiency and flexibility in a cost-effective manner.”
The modernizations GE will provide at the Great Yarmouth power station—a 400-MW combined-cycle power plant consisting of a GE 9F.03 gas turbine and a GE D10 steam turbine and generator—include a gas turbine upgrade as well as major inspections of the steam turbine and generator with replacements of key components in the steam turbine.
The upgrades also include GE’s Dry Low NOx 2.6+ combustion system, Advanced Gas Path solution, Asset Performance Management advanced digital solution, Mark VIe integrated control system and associated gas and steam turbine generator maintenance. With GE’s Fleet360 upgrade solutions, the plant’s combined-cycle efficiency will be increased by up to 2% and its output is expected to be improved by 21 MW—increasing its power output to a level equivalent to the amount needed to power approximately 330,000 homes.
RWE Generation owns, operates and maintains a portfolio of 8,546 MW of gas, coal and biomass power stations in the UK, including some smaller open-cycle gas turbine and combined heat and power generation assets. GE has active involvement across RWE’s UK plants, including at Aberthaw, Pembroke, Staythorpe, Little Barford and Great Yarmouth, which total approximately 6.5 GW of installed capacity.
The upgrade will take place in the second quarter of 2018.
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