NEW TURBINE REPAIR HUB ESTABLISHED IN SINGAPORE

Four years ago GE pledged $60 million to equip its Singaporean site for advanced gas turbine repairs. Today, GE’s Repair Solutions Singapore (GRSS) is now a global hub for fixing the key components in the world’s fastest-growing fleet of H-Class heavy-duty gas turbines.

Now the site is stepping up its technical expertise yet again. It has gained the capability to repair a crucial part of GE Gas Power’s HA turbine, a symbol of Asia’s growth to gas-fuelled power. That’s a potential game changer for Asian power generators, who have driven demand for the highly efficient HA in recent years, and it marks another step in GE’s broader ambition to make electricity more globally accessible.

No longer do customers have to send HA rotors, the fast-whirling shaft which sucks air into the turbine’s combustion section and spins the generator, to GE’s specialist shops in North America and Europe when they require attention.

Doing the job in Singapore can cut as much as two months off the repair cycle. That wins back thousands of megawatt-hours of generation and millions of dollars in revenue for Asian customers, and significantly reduces the carbon emissions associated with a rotor repair job.

“This is a very significant improvement to the lead time and delivery of repairs that supports the outage needs of our Asian customers,” says Morgan Terrill, an executive of Supply Chain Development for GE.

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