H System Launch Site

Baglan Bay Power Station Port Talbot, Wales*

100% GE-owned investment in validation of the revolutionary H System technology and turnkey construction-comprised of two power plants.

Features

109H System Combined Cycle Power Plant
  • 480 MW; single shaft; 60% CC efficiency platform
  • Firing temperature class: 1430°C (2600°F)
  • 18 stage compressor w/23:1 pressure ratio; airflow 1510 lbs/sec
  • 14 can DLN 2.5; NOx emissions: 25 ppm

Steam Turbine: GE design; reheat, single flow exhaust; co-mfg. with Toshiba
Generator: GE 550 MW LSTG; 660 MVA liquid cooled
HRSG: 3 pressure level reheat

LM2500 Combined Heat and Power Plant
  • 33 MW GE LM2500
  • HRSG; auxiliary boiler and 2 cell process cooling tower
  • Plant provides utility supply to Baglan Energy Park** and BP Chemical Plant*** - electricity, steam, demineralized and attemperated water, process cooling
  • Blackstart capability
Other Baglan PowerStation Features
  • GE Mark VI based Integrated Control System
  • 10 cell cooling tower
  • Chimney: triple flue; slip form poured
  • GE Water Technologies treatment plant
  • 275 kV switchyard connecting to National Transmission (Electricity) System
  • 33 kV switchyard with local supply to BP Chemicals and Baglan Energy Park
  • Pipeline Reception Facility (PRF)
    • For 12 km Baglan pipeline spur to National Transmission (Gas) System
    • Gas compression and pressure reduction capability, featuring GE centrifugal compressors

GE Products & Services Used at Baglan

GE
  • 9H gas turbine, LP steam turbine, generator, other power train equipment and accessories
  • EPC project management
  • Technical advisors
  • Operations & maintenance; monitoring and diagnostics
  • LM2500, plant compressors, gas compressors
  • Water treatment systems
  • 2 MW diesel generator
  • Construction and testing power (GE Rentals)
  • Switchyard control system; GT instruments
  • BOP PLCs and operator interfaces
  • Plant-merchant systems integration software
GE Capital
  • IT integration support
  • Plant financing
GE Industrial Systems
  • Integrated control system with Mark VIs
  • 6.9 kV switchgear
  • Various pump and valve motors
GE Lighting
  • Turbine hall and BOP lighting
Silvertech
  • PRF control systems integration
Penpower
  • Commissioning
QCI
  • Pipe installation technical advisors

*Plant located on site leased from BP
**
 
Baglan Energy Park is a joint development among BP, Welsh Development Agency and Neath Port Talbot County Borough Council
***BP Chemicals Limited - Isopropanol plant adjacent to power station