GE has signed two gas turbine power plant maintenance deals, one with a Venezuelan utility and the other in Canada. The Venezuelan contract involves two gas turbines at the Planta Luisa Caceres de Arismendi, a power plant that provides much of the energy for Margarita Island on the coast of Venezuela.
Under the terms of the $28 million deal, GE will provide planned and unplanned maintenance for twelve years for two MS6001B gas turbines added to the plant in late 1999. The two units, producing 70MW, join seven existing MS5001B turbines to bring total plant output to 227MW.
The plant is owned by Sistema Electrico del Estado Nueva Esparta (SENECA). CMS Energy is the majority shareholder in SENECA. GE has already signed a long term service deal for the seven earlier turbines.
The new agreement includes performance incentives for availability, output and heat rate. GE is also providing software for optimising plant performance as part of the deal.
Meanwhile GE Aeroderivative and Package Services has extended two long-term service agreements with Northland Power for maintenance of six GE units at three power plant in Canada. The seven year agreements extend contracts signed in 1995 and 1996.
The three plants included are Iroquois Falls Power Corp, a 110 MW combined cycle cogeneration power plant with two LM6000 turbines Cochrane Power Corp, where a LM2500 steam injected gas turbine is coupled to a heat recovery steam generator to generate 15 MW of electricity from a steam turbine, total output 42 MW, and Kirkland Lake Power Corp, a 102 MW facility utilising a wood fired/gas turbine combined cycle configuration. The plant comprises three wood-fired boilers and three LM2500 gas turbines. Total plant generating capacity is 45 MW.