GE to provide digital solutions at GAMA Energji plant

ISTANBUL, TURKEY — Adding value to an existing service agreement, GE’s Power Services business announced that it will help GAMA Enerji A.Ş. to reduce fuel costs and improve power generation asset reliability and visibility at its İçanadolu Doğal Gaz Elektrik Üretim Ve Ticaret A.Ş. (ICAN) power plant in Turkey using a variety of digital solutions. The benefits realized from the power plant’s improved fuel savings will be shared between the two companies. This marks the first time that GE has implemented its Outcome as a Service (OaaS) model, which is part of a 20-yr agreement, in Turkey.

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The project is the result of GE and GAMA Enerji working together to reconfigure an existing multiyear service agreement to benefit both companies. With the new agreement, GAMA Enerji will install and deploy GE’s Asset Strategy Optimization solution and will also extend the scope of its implementation of GE’s Asset Performance Management (APM) software suite. The project, which includes balance of plant equipment, will provide added reliability and visibility of asset performance, enabling better, clearer and faster predictive maintenance and condition monitoring on the plant’s two GE 9FB gas turbines.

In addition, GAMA Enerji will implement GE’s Plant Optimization-Efficiency solution at its ICAN combined-cycle power plant to drive improvements in fuel savings as part of a risk-shared business model. With this software, there is a continuous orchestration of plant operations across ambient heat conditions and megawatt (MW) targets, which results in lower heat rates that help reduce fuel consumption and lead to fuel savings.

Combined with the APM software solution suite, GE will provide a flexible program of gas turbine parts inspections, flexible maintenance intervals and better availability guarantees. These improvements, which boost the reliability of power generating machines, can reduce unplanned downtime by up to 5%, decrease false alerts by up to 75% and improve operations and maintenance costs by up to 25%.

GAMA Enerji’s ICAN combined-cycle power plant has an installed power capacity of 853 MW and consists of two 286.5-MW GE 9FB.05 gas turbines and one 280-MW GE D11 steam turbine. The facility generates, on average, approximately 6,300 gigawatt-hours of electricity, annually.

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