Power Plant Services

Influencing Plant Profitability

Deregulation, linked with declining reserve margins and climatic temperature extremes, has resulted in new economic plant operation considerations for owners of existing power plants and developers of new power plants. Operation and maintenance strategy significantly influences plant profitability.

Features & Benefits

Power producers in today’s competitive environment recognize the value of forming service relationships with companies that can help them extract the greatest sustained efficiency, reliability and availability from their power generation equipment. GE develops extended, mutually beneficial relationships with customers, including multi-year parts and services agreements and total operation and maintenance agreements.

  • GE’s “Deal” Center of Excellence can assist with power generation project development from conceptualization through active development, construction and operation.
  • Our contractual service agreements are based on the concept of shared goals, with both GE and our customers committed to the continuous improvement of plant performance. The key benefits include long-term maintenance price predictability, operational flexibility and best-in-class turbine reliability and performance.
  • Our plant performance evaluation service quantifies the current performance of your plant relative to expected performance, determines the causes of performance deterioration and recommends ways to optimize the plant’s operation and maintenance.
  • Plant owners can use our power plant thermal modeling service to evaluate and diagnose their plant’s performance.
  • Our plant upgrade services include revamping, upgrading and expanding your plant to optimize your assets.