GE Energy has signed two new Jenbacher gas engine distributor and service agreements with highly-regarded energy services companies in Russia as industry and municipalities seek more efficient, reliable, fuel-flexible onsite power solutions. These agreements also will support the country's efforts to modernise its power generation and delivery infrastructure while reducing regional greenhouse gas emissions.
GE announced its new Jenbacher gas engine distributor and service agreements with Intma of Moscow and Vapor of St Petersburg during Russia Power 2009, the region's leading annual power industry conference. Intma is an engineering services/general contractor for power stations and production automation systems, while Vapor specialises in the engineering of sophisticated combined heat and power (CHP) applications.
Ruslan Pakhomov, GE Energy's country executive, said: "As Russia continues to modernise its power generation and delivery infrastructure, these GE distributor and service agreements for its Jenbacher gas engines are an important step in our localisation strategy here. GE is committed to collaborating with local companies such as Intma and Vapor that share the same goal: to deliver to customers a high level of service in Russia."
Within the scope of the agreement, Intma's sales and service territory covers the Ural region. Intma will focus on expanding the role of GE's Jenbacher gas engines for industrial applications including associated petroleum gas power generation projects for oil producers, coal mine gas power plants, waste-gas systems for the metals industry and GE's natural gas-powered cogeneration/CO² fertilisation systems for commercial greenhouses.
According to the agreement, Vapor will support customers in Kaliningrad Oblast and the north and north west regions, in addition to St Petersburg. Vapor is exploring additional potential opportunities to help the food industry, greenhouse operators and other manufacturers overcome power shortages in specific regions by installing GE's Jenbacher units to provide a highly reliable, onsite supply of heat and electricity. Vapor also is working with industrial and municipal customers to install modern district heating/CHP systems.
In late 2008 Vapor commissioned a three-Jenbacher unit GE cogeneration plant for an industrial company in St Petersburg.
With the authorised distributors Power Solutions and Max Motors already in place, GE now has four authorised Jenbacher gas engine distributors in Russia.
Ruslan Pakhomov said: "GE is very excited to work with Intma and Vapor to help us meet the growing customer demand throughout Russia for customised, turn-key solutions combined with day-to-day support and prompt after-sales service."
In March GE Energy announced the opening of a new engineering sales, service and technology centre in Moscow and plans to build a new power technology centre in the Kaluga region, about 180km south west of Moscow. GE's Kaluga Power Technology Center will initially provide services for GE power generation equipment installed in Russia and the CIS region.
More than 230 of GE's Jenbacher gas engines have already been delivered throughout Russia, in applications ranging from associated petroleum gas solutions to high-efficiency combined heat and power projects.
GE Energy's Jenbacher gas engine business is a leading manufacturer of gas-fuelled reciprocating engines, packaged generator sets and cogeneration units for power generation. GE's gas engine technology covers an output range of 0.25MW to 4MW and can operate on a broad variety of gases while offering high levels of efficiency, durability and reliability.
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. In addition to its various cogeneration applications, GE's Jenbacher biogas, landfill gas and coal mine methane engines previously received ecomagination certification, underscoring the environmental and economic benefits offered from the utilisation of generating energy from high methane content waste streams.
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