15-07-2022

GE announces H-Class Turnkey combined cycle power plant order for Energa’s Ostroleka power plant in Poland supporting decarbonisation targets

GE Gas Power announced it has secured an order from Energa SA, one of the three largest electricity suppliers in Poland, part of ORLEN Group, a major player in the energy industry in Poland, for a GE 9HA.02 turnkey combined cycle power plant project for Ostroleka C power plant, in north-east Poland. This project will play a strategic role in supporting the acceleration of renewable energy growth by enhancing the reliability and stability of the energy grid, challenged by grid limitations in the northeastern part of the National Power System. The project marks also GE’s second H-Class gas turbine order in Poland after Dolna Odra, currently under construction. The order was booked in the first quarter of 2022.

Located in the City of Ostroleka, the new plant will be powered by a GE 9HA.02 gas turbine, an STF-D650 steam turbine, a W88 generator, a Heat Recovery Steam Generator (HRSG) and GE's integrated Mark* VIe Distributed Control System (DCS). GE 9HA.02 gas turbine, with the currently quickest ramp rate in the industry - 88MW per minute (1xCC 9HA.02 Plant) — will enable Energa to dispatch power quickly in response to grid fluctuations. GE’s Mark* VIe control systems will help Energa improve asset visibility, reliability, and availability while reducing operating and maintenance costs. As part of the agreement, GE will provide full engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) of this combined cycle power plant.

For this project, the steam turbine will be manufactured locally in GE’s steam turbine factory in Elblag, Poland while the manufacturing of the generator will take place in GE’s generator factory in Wroclaw, Poland. The gas turbine will be manufactured at GE’s Manufacturing Excellence Center in Belfort, France.

To further decrease carbon emissions from gas power plants, the 9HA gas turbine that will be installed at Ostroleka power plant has the DLN 2.6e combustion system capable of burning up to 50% by volume of hydrogen when blended with natural gas with a technology roadmap developed to achieve 100% hydrogen in this platform over the next decade.