Under the contract, GE will supply eight units of its advanced 9F.03 gas turbines designed for combined-cycle plants with 99.8% average reliability.
The gas turbines are expected to lower startup emissions.
The facility’s enhanced compressor is designed to increase reliability and availability while reducing the need of periodic inspections and maintenance costs.
Mass Global Investment Company board chairman Ahmed Ismail Saleh said: "We are working with GE on ambitious power generation plants, and the new project will leverage the newest and most-efficient technologies by GE for seamless efficiency and increased productivity."
Planned to be developed 30km away from Baghdad within a massive housing development project, the $3bn Bismayah power plant is designed to generate electricity required to power more than 5 million Iraqi households.
The Bismayah project represents the first of its kind independent power producer (IPP) deal between by Mass Global Investment Company with Iraq Ministry of Electricity.
The gas-fired Bismayah plant is being built as part of country’s larger development goal.
Turkey’s Enka Insaat was selected earlier by Mass Global Investment Company as the engineering and construction contractor for the project, which is planned to be developed in two phases, each with a capacity of 1,500MW.
Enka is currently finalizing the plans for the second phase of the project.
According to the Iraq Energy Outlook by International Energy Agency, the country is estimated to require over 70GW of additional installed capacity to meet its needs by 2035, by shifting its focus on more efficient gas-fired generation rather than the traditional oil-fired power mix.
Image: GE’s advanced 9F.03 gas turbines are designed to have 99.8% average reliability. Photo: courtesy of GE.
