GE Power Showcases The Future of Power Generation at WETEX 2017
GE Power (NYSE: GE) is highlighting the future of power generation at the 19th Water, Energy, Innovation and Environment Exhibition (WETEX 2017), organized by the Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA), from October 23 to 25. A Strategic Sponsor of WETEX 2017, GE Power located at booth SSP11 in Za'abeel Hall 1 at the Dubai International Convention & Exhibition Center.
Joseph Anis, President & Chief Executive Officer of GE's Power Services business Middle East & Africa, said, "The power generation industry in the UAE and larger Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) is focused on boosting performance, expanding the energy mix, lowering costs and updating procedures with digitization to meet the region's growing power requirements. GE Power is dedicated to supporting its customers with industry-leading innovations that will certainly assist them meet these goals in a sustainable manner.
Under the theme The Future of Power Generation GE Power is showcasing industry-leading modern technologies at WETEX 2017 that provide greater efficiency, flexibility, sustainability and savings for the power market. These consist of GE's 9EMax gas turbine upgrade service, which can help reduce annual fuel costs by as much as $5 million, while developing the potential for up to $6 million in extra profits, along with its cross-fleet profile of remedies that support greater than 90 original equipment suppliers' (OEM) brands of gas and heavy steam generators, generators, central heating boilers and various other balance-of-plant equipment.
Additionally taking center stage are GE's H-class modern technology, the world's most effective durable gas turbine, which uses greater than 63% consolidated cycle efficiency and leads to the incredibly cost-effective conversion of gas to power; its ultra-supercritical heavy steam innovation, which powers the world's most effective coal-fueled power plant in Germany and will be released at DEWA's upcoming Hassyan Clean Coal Power plant; GE's 4.8-158 onshore wind turbine, its largest high efficiency generator to this day; GE'ss LV5 inverter, which is being deployed by DEWA at the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Solar Park and solutions its sophisticated smart grid solutions; and much more.
GE has supported the development of the power sector in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) for over 80 years, supplying innovative technologies that match the UAE Power Technique 2050 and the Dubai Clean Energy Strategy 2050 Today, GE-built technologies can create approximately HALF of the GCC's electricity, sustaining the power market's transformation by making use of various fuel sources, working across the power worth network and deploying sophisticated digital industrial solutions.
