GE has secured orders for ten of its LMS100 aeroderivative gas turbine with two customers in North America. These contracts have pushed the backlog for LMS100 technology to in excess of $450 million.
The ten units – five LMS100-PA and five LMS 100-PA+ units – have been ordered by two customers in the USA. Rated at up to 116 MW, the LMS100-PA+ is the latest model to be offered to the market. It is said to provide more than a 10 % increase in output without any increase in emissions. In addition, says GE, the turbine achieves simple-cycle efficiency of 44 %, greater than any other gas turbine available today.
The units will be installed in the southwestern USA to support grid stability as new renewable energy is added, and they will replace older gas-fired steam turbine generator systems. The LMS100 was designed to provide flexible and reliable distributed power, in part to help offset grid fluctuations; it can ramp from zero to 50 MW of power in one minute and zero to full power in less than 10 minutes.
