GE wins Pakistan turbine deal

[Edevelop]

US turbine manufacturer GE has won its first order in Pakistan, to supply hardware at the 50MW Sapphire wind farm.

Under the agreement with Sapphire and HydroChina will install 33 1.5-82.5 machines at the project in the south-eastern province of Sindh, outside provincial capital Karachi. GE will also cover operations and maintenance services for 10 years.

Sapphire has been buying GE’s Jenbacher engines and gas turbines for projects in the region for some 18 years.

“We chose GE wind turbines because they are a well-proven technology and widely installed around the world, especially in tropical climates like that of Pakistan,” said Sapphire project owner Nadeem Abdullah.

GE president for renewable energy Anne McEntee added: “Pakistan has huge potential for wind energy and is a great example of a country where wind can be competitive with other generation technologies.”

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[Kompromat]

Step in the right direction.

 

[Green Arrow]

Finally some sane step been taken

 

[Edevelop]

Pakistan Wind Industry Takes Next Step Forward With GE

GE announced Monday that it would be providing 33 wind turbines to the Sapphire Wind Power farm in the southeastern Pakistani province of Sindh, located just outside the provincial capital of Karachi.
The move marks GE’s first wind order in the country, and takes Pakistan another step towards its own (meagre) renewable energy goals.

Pakistan is not a name that often appears in the renewable energy news hedalines, but the country is not without its own clean energy industry. With the Jhimpir Wind Power Plant also located in Sindh, and the proposed 1,000 MW Quaid-e-Azam Solar Park (currently working towards its first 100 MW, with full deployment expected by 2016), Pakistan is taking steps — albeit small ones. Although, it needs to not necessarily take big steps, considering the country’s renewable energy target is 5% of electricity from renewable energy sources by 2030.

Nevertheless, everyone has to start somewhere, and the economics of the region may demand a smaller opening target than the financial behemoths of North America or Europe.


GE will supply the Sapphire Wind Power farm with 33 of its GE 1.5-82.5 wind turbines, and has also signed a 10-year operations and maintenance services agreement as part of the contract.

“We chose GE wind turbines because they are a well-proven technology and widely installed around the world, especially in tropical climates like that of Pakistan,” said Nadeem Abdullah, owner of the Sapphire Wind Power farm. “GE has been instrumental in supporting Sapphire to achieve financial closure with OPIC.”

“GE is excited to help our customers in Pakistan work towards its goals for renewable energy growth in the country,” said Anne McEntee, president and CEO of GE’s renewable energy business. “Pakistan has huge potential for wind energy, and is a great example of a country where wind can be competitive with other generation technologies.”

Pakistan Wind Industry Takes Next Step Forward With GE

 

[l'ingénieur]

nott enough
its just to save face
if it was 3000 then id be impressed and then it would b effective

33 is shit and useless

 

[shaheenmissile]

The most expensive form of electricity is the so called green energy from wind and sun. Who will eventually pay for this novelty imposed by commission mafia? The poor people in the form of inflated elecyricity bills.

 

[Skull and Bones]

The most expensive form of electricity is the so called green energy from wind and sun. Who will eventually pay for this novelty imposed by commission mafia? The poor people in the form of inflated elecyricity bills.

Wrong, modern wind energy rivals that of the coal fired energy, and the money invested will be back within 6 years at most, and after that it's virtually free for the next 2 decades, barring minimum maintenance cost.

With 9% efficiency, Solar is the most expensive, but with modern 20-25% organic solar cells, the scenario of renewable energy is going to change forever, Germany even achieved as high as 44% efficiency with Solar cells, if mass produced, that'd be the cheapest form of energy available.

 

[xyxmt]

nott enough
its just to save face
if it was 3000 then id be impressed and then it would b effective

33 is shit and useless

so one day you wake up and suddenly there is 3000 mega watt wind farm, wouldnt that be nice...but, but, but then how about not enough if it was 5000 then you'd impressed

 

[l'ingénieur]

so one day you wake up and suddenly there is 3000 mega watt wind farm, wouldnt that be nice...but, but, but then how about not enough if it was 5000 then you'd impressed

wtf u saying man

 

[xyxmt]

wtf u saying man

dont know HTF to read, man?

 

[Edevelop]

This is in Jhimpir. The area has the potential to generate up to 50,000 MW. They need to keep building more turbines,

 

[Sugarcane]

Govt. should subsidize the solar penal and encourage domestic user to cover some part of their energy needs themselves, it will help to bridge the gap faster.

 

[niaz]

GE 1.5 MW turbine is quite well-known. The classification 1.5- 82.5 suggests that it is 82.5 metres high.

According to the best of my info a 1.5 MW wind turbine costs about $2-million.Total cost of the project would be much higher as one would need to install new transmission line to the grid.

I would expect cut-in speed to be about 3.5 metre per second and cut- out at about 25 meter per second. Remember that 1.5MW is the maximum output which is achieved at the wind speeds of 8 meter/sec or higher. Another thing to remember is that 49.5 MW is the total installed capacity. Even though GE claim 50%, but a more realistic average over a 12 month period should be closer to 40%. This is because wind is not blowing at a minimum of 8 meter per second 24 hours each day. Thus in real terms you are producing about 20 MW with the investment of $66-million excluding the cost of transmission.

However, once the money has been spent, cost of Wind Power generation is about 30% less than that of coal

 

[Men in Green]

GE Expands Global Wind Presence with First Order in Pakistan

• 33 GE 1.5-82.5 Wind Turbines will Generate Power from Pakistan’s Sind Wind Corridor
• Wind Farm to Assist Pakistan in Lowering Energy Deficit and Meet Alternative Energy Goals
• 50 Megawatt (MW) Deal Includes Ten Year Service Agreement with GE

SINDH, Pakistan—October 27, 2014—Executing on growing the presence of renewable energy around the world, GE (NYSE: GE) today announced it will supply equipment and procurement contractor HydroChina and wind farm customer Sapphire with 33 GE 1.5-82.5 wind turbines for the Sapphire Wind Power farm in the southeastern Pakistani province of Sindh, located outside the provincial capital of Karachi. GE will also provide 10 years of operations and maintenance services as part of the contract.

The 33 wind turbines will comprise the first GE powered wind farm in Pakistan and will be constructed in the Gharo-Keti Bandar Wind Corridor. The wind farm has the capacity to generate 50 MW of electricity, helping Pakistan meet the 5 percent goal it has set for percentage of electricity generation from renewable sources by 2030.

Though this is GE’s first wind energy project with Sapphire and HydroChina, Sapphire has selected GE power generation equipment for more than 18 years—choosing GE’s Jenbacher engines and gas turbines for projects located in the region.

“We chose GE wind turbines because they are a well-proven technology and widely installed around the world, especially in tropical climates like that of Pakistan,” said Nadeem Abdullah, owner of the Sapphire Wind Power farm. “GE has been instrumental in supporting Sapphire to achieve financial closure with OPIC.”

OPIC is the U.S. Government’s Development Finance Institution, which mobilizes to provide capital to global development in order to assist U.S. foreign policy efforts, including helping develop renewable energy as a mutual American-Pakistani goal. OPIC’s funding will help assist in the development of the wind farm.

Pakistan contains vast renewable energy potential, estimated by the U.S. Agency for International Development and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory at over 132 gigawatts (GW) of wind energy capacity. With an increasing electricity demand at four percent per year, Pakistan also needs over 6 GW of additional generation according to Pakistan’s National Electric Power Regulatory Agency.

“GE is excited to help our customers in Pakistan work towards its goals for renewable energy growth in the country,” said Anne McEntee, president and CEO of GE’s renewable energy business. “Pakistan has huge potential for wind energy, and is a great example of a country where wind can be competitive with other generation technologies.”

Globally, GE has over 37 GW of installed wind turbine capacity, operating at over 98 percent availability.

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[Rajput_Pakistani]

Right step in right direction..

But......

Few things needed to be done before signing such agreements.In my humble opinion, terrif calculation for such investments must be very clear and transparent, we tneed energy but we need cheap and renewable energy. We must be signing agreements only with companies also offering us ToT.
Government should create a consortium of Public+Private investment, also offering shares to general public through which we can create investments for large power projects.