FUTTSU, JAPAN - October 12, 2006 :- The first of three GE Frame 9H gas turbines is being installed at Tokyo Electric Power Company’s (TEPCO) Futtsu Thermal Power Station Group 4, the first Asian application of GE Energy’s most advanced gas turbine combined-cycle technology.

Three GE 109H systems, each featuring a 9H gas turbine, steam turbine and generator, will be installed at the Futtsu site and will produce a total of 1,520 megawatts. The three units will enter commercial operation between 2008 and 2010.

The world’s first combined-cycle system with the capability to reach 60 percent thermal efficiency (LHV basis), the H System is a component of ecomagination, GE’s corporate-wide initiative to develop and market technologies that will help customers address pressing environmental challenges.

The high efficiency of the H System means less fuel is used resulting in fewer emissions for each megawatt of electricity produced. A 9H System has the capability of producing 87,000 metric tons per year fewer greenhouse gasses when compared to a typical gas turbine combined-cycle plant producing the equivalent electricity.

Manufactured at GE Energy’s Greenville, South Carolina facility, the first 9H was shipped to Japan in June of this year. It was erected on its base in the Futtsu facility on August 11, followed by the installation of the steam turbine lower pressure casing on August 17. The steam turbine high pressure/intermediate pressure lower shell also has been installed, and preliminary alignments have begun. In addition, the heat recovery steam generator for the first combined-cycle unit has arrived on site.

“As the Asian debut for the technology, the installation of the first 9H at Futtsu is a major milestone in the commercial development of our H System for the global power industry,” said Steve Bolze, Vice President – Power Generation for GE Energy. “This project also further extends our long-standing relationship with TEPCO, one of the world’s leading private power companies.”

GE gas turbine combined-cycle technology has been supplied to TEPCO for numerous projects including:

• 14 Frame 109E gas turbine combined-cycle systems for Futtsu 1 and 2
• Eight 109FA combined-cycle systems for Yokohama 7 and 8
• Four 109FA systems for Chiba 2
• Four 109FA+e systems for Futtsu 3
• Three 109FA+e for Shinagawa 1
• Three 109H systems for Futtsu 4 (under construction)

TEPCO is the world’s largest private power company, supplying electricity to 25 million customers in Tokyo, Yokohama and the Kanto region.

Futtsu will mark the third application of GE’s H technology. The world’s first 50-hertz H System entered service in 2003 at Baglan Bay in South Wales, where it has surpassed 17,000 operating hours; and the first 60-hertz H technology project will be the Inland Empire Energy Center in Southern California, scheduled to begin service in 2008.

Representing a technology breakthrough for the global power industry, GE’s H System features an innovative steam cooling system that enables the higher firing temperatures required for increased efficiency. In addition, GE engineers designed the H turbine’s first-stage buckets and nozzles with single-crystal materials to withstand higher temperatures over a long service life.

About GE Energy

GE Energy (www.ge.com/energy) ) is one of the world’s leading suppliers of power generation and energy delivery technologies, with 2005 revenue of $16.5 billion. Based in Atlanta, Georgia, GE Energy works in all areas of the energy industry including coal, oil, natural gas and nuclear energy; renewable resources such as water, wind, solar and biogas; and other alternative fuels.

Numerous GE Energy products are certified under ecomagination, GE’s corporate-wide initiative to aggressively bring to market new technologies that will help customers meet pressing environmental challenges.

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