04 January 2012
Bis Enerji, Developer of One of Turkey's Largest Independent Power Plants, Selects GE Aeroderivative Technology Once Again
  • Bis Enerji's Combined-Cycle Plant In Bursa, Turkey, to Increase Capacity from 410 Megawatts to 495 Megawatts
  • Flexibility of GE's LM6000-PC Sprint Gas Turbine Matches Bis Enerji's Complex Requirements

HOUSTON, TEXAS and BURSA, TURKEY-January 4, 2012-GE (NYSE: GE) announced today it will supply a 48-megawatt (MW) LM6000-PC Sprint aeroderivative gas turbine and related services to independent power producer for the expansion of one of Turkey's largest merchant power plants. Bis Enerji's plant in Bursa, a heavily industrialized city in northwest Turkey and center of the country's automotive industry, already features power generation equipment based exclusively on GE technology.

unit and an associated steam turbine-generator will increase the cogeneration plant's installed capacity from 410 MW to 495 MW, or enough to power approximately 200,000moreTurkish households, when it enters commercial operation in August 2012. The plant currently has six GE aeroderivative gas turbines, one and two GE steam turbines, with all gas turbines fueled by natural gas.

"Our company exists to sell power into the grid in order to meet the needs of the Turkish people, meaning that at all times we must be able to produce the power required at that moment, and we must do so in an economically advantageous manner in compliance with all environmental regulations," said F