Value Packages

Increased Performance and Reliability

Many significant advances in technology have been applied to new unit production. These advanced technology improvements can be applied to field units to achieve increased performance, useful life and reliability.

Today, utilities are looking for the competitive edge that additional capacity and better performance provides. Other factors that enter into the economic model are the desire for sustained performance with minimal degradation over a period of at least ten years, and the desire to extend time between major overhauls to at least ten years.

Every owner of a GE heavy-duty gas or steam turbine should evaluate the overall economics of our conversion, modification and uprate programs. In most cases, the economic evaluation will justify one of the available uprate packages at the next major overhaul.