GE has signed an extension of its multi-year maintenance services agreement with Central Puerto to support the company’s 760 MW combined cycle power plant in Buenos Aires for an additional nine years. The $70 million plus contract includes the first order in Argentina for GE’s advanced digital power plant solutions and extends a nearly two-decade collaboration between Central Puerto and GE. Central Puerto recently purchased a GE 9HA.01 gas turbine, with the installation planned for the following years, marking GE’s first order for its high efficiency HA gas turbine technology in the Latin American and Caribbean regions.
José Luis Morea, chief strategy officer of Central Puerto commented: “This station is crucial to the reliability of the power grid in Buenos Aires, requiring that it operates at the best possible performance levels … generating the equivalent power needed to supply more than 500 000 homes in the country.”
The new agreement provides Central Puerto with an array of GE power generation technologies, including a full power station distributed control system upgrade, a liquid fuel filtering system, improved balance of plant equipment as well as comprehensive services to maintain the station’s boilers, condenser and steam turbine.
Powered by Predix, GE’s cloud-based operating system built exclusively for the industry, the Asset Performance Management (APM) software application will draw data to monitor, analyse, enhance and predict equipment health at Central Puerto. The APM’s anomaly detection capability, which reads a network of thousands of sensors placed throughout the plant, allows a predictive maintenance system to increase the station’s reliability and availability while reducing maintenance costs.
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