- Clarke Energy to Provide Two of GE’s
Natural Gas-Fueled Jenbacher Gas Engines in a Customized
Prefabricated and Modular Enclosure for Sebewaing Light & Water
(SL&W)
- Project Helps Mitigate Effects of
Increased Variability in MISO’s Wholesale Electricity Segment
- SL&W Project’s Savings in the
Region of $1.4 Million and a Reduction of up to 15,000 Tons of
Carbon Dioxide per Year Compared to Status Quo
- Hot Water Recovered from the Engines
Will be Available to SL&W’s Leading Industrial Customer
As phased decommissioning of coal plants and additional
renewables integration into the grid have led to increased
variability in the Midcontinent Independent System Operator
(MISO)’s wholesale electricity segment, GE’s Distributed Power
business (NYSE: GE) and Clarke Energy — GE’s authorized Channel
Partner of Jenbacher* gas engines in Michigan — today announced
that they will provide a turnkey combined heat and power (CHP)
plant to municipal electricity utility Sebewaing Light & Water
(SL&W). The CHP plant, funded by a public bond, will augment
SL&W’s existing power plant assets with GE’s high-efficiency,
natural gas-fueled Jenbacher gas engines, allowing for lower
electricity costs for residential, commercial and industrial
customers in Sebewaing. Following completion of the project, Clarke
Energy will provide a long-term comprehensive service agreement
with associated availability guarantees.
“Sebewaing is a unique load, and GE’s Distributed Power business
and Clarke Energy were able to customize the application to enhance
benefits for our utility and our customers. The high efficiency of
GE’s Jenbacher gas engines fueled by natural gas will allow us to
generate electricity at a low cost and reduce our risk of wholesale
electricity price volatility,” said Melanie McCoy, superintendent,
SL&W. “By self-generating our electricity, we estimate savings
at more than $1.4 million per year. In addition, the plant adds to
our capacity, allowing us to reliably serve more customers when the
transmission grid is constrained or suffers an outage.”
The project includes one each of GE’s Jenbacher J624 and J620
gas engines, providing 4.4 megawatts of electricity (MWe) and 3.3
MWe, respectively, with a total output of 7.7 MWe. Clarke Energy
will also install GE’s Distributed Power’s myPlant* Asset
Performance Management (APM) offering—an original equipment
manufacturer-agnostic, Industrial Internet of Things solution for
reciprocating engines and generators that allows customers to
improve the availability, reliability, operating performance and
maintenance effectiveness of their Jenbacher gas engine fleet.
Clarke Energy will provide a customized prefabricated and
modular enclosure solution for the gensets along with turnkey
project management, installation, integration and
commissioning.
From an environmental sustainability perspective, the high
electrical efficiency and total system efficiency when running in
CHP mode will displace an estimated 15,000 tons of carbon dioxide
(CO2) per year, according to calculations utilizing the U.S. EPA
eGRID database that tracks CO2 and other emissions’ intensity on
the electric grid by region and sub-region. The significant
reduction in CO2 is achieved by replacing grid electricity, which
is predominately produced from aging coal plants in Michigan, with
high-efficiency natural gas combustion in leading reciprocating
internal combustion engine technology. Further carbon savings are
achieved by operating the equipment in CHP, mode which utilizes
waste heat from the gensets to directly offset natural gas burned
in a boiler for industrial process steam or hot water. The natural
gas-generating assets will also offset several aging
diesel-generation assets for SL&W’s standby generation
needs.
“Clarke Energy is committed to providing a high-quality solution
designed to meet SL&W’s needs and to support the installation
through the entire life of the project. Our turnkey design,
combined with GE’s proven CHP technology, will help meet the
customer’s load profiles throughout the year,” said Adam
Wray-Summerson, sales director—U.S., Clarke Energy. “Using
Jenbacher gas engines, this solution delivers substantial
environmental and economic savings, adding to SL&W’s
capabilities. Our prefabricated, modular design concept helps to
ensure best manufacture processes are adhered to with full
consideration of health and safety. The concept helps to minimize
on-site ‘hot-works,’ which reduces costs and project delivery
risks. Coupled with a long-term service agreement provided by our
experienced local team, this project will help ensure SL&W
customers have reliable stable power for years to come.”
Heat recovered from the cooling water circuits, lube oil
circuit, intercooler and exhaust gases can provide up to 10.45
million British thermal units per hour in the form of
low-temperature hot water at 224 degrees Fahrenheit. The hot water
will be available to SL&W’s leading industrial customer.
“Helping to address the increased variability of the wholesale
electricity segment in Michigan and the Midwest, distributed
natural gas-fueled power generation plants—like the one we are
building for SL&W—provide flexible solutions to generate
electricity at a low cost and with lower emissions. These types of
plants also offer total project cycle speed in terms of their
ability to go from contract signing to full operation in a year or
less,” said Leon Jansen van Vuuren, general manager, global sales
and commercial operations, GE’s Distributed Power business. “Clarke
Energy’s long-term service agreement backed by GE’s parts supply
and our myPlant APM system help ensure excellent performance and
reliability for the duration of the plant’s design life.”
GE’s Jenbacher gas engines have arrived in the U.S. from the
company’s production facility in Jenbach, Austria. Clarke Energy’s
prefabricated enclosure is being manufactured in Wisconsin, where
the units will be mechanically and electrically installed prior to
shipment to the site in the fourth quarter of 2018. The
commissioning will then swiftly follow to ensure the site is
operational in the first quarter of 2019.
About Clarke Energy
Clarke Energy, a Kohler Company, is a leader in the engineering
design, installation and long-term maintenance of gas engine-based
power plants. The company is authorized sales and service provider
for GE’s Jenbacher gas engines in 25 countries. Clarke Energy
employs over 1,100 staff and has over 6,300 MWe of Jenbacher
generation equipment installed globally.
About GE’s Distributed Power business
GE’s Distributed Power business, which includes the Jenbacher
and Waukesha product lines, is a leading provider of engines, power
equipment and services focused on power generation and gas
compression at or near the point of use. Distributed Power offers a
diverse product portfolio that includes highly efficient,
fuel-flexible, industrial gas engines generating 200 kW to 10 MW of
power for numerous industries globally. In addition, the business
provides life cycle support for more than 48,000 gas engines
worldwide to help you meet your business challenges and success
metrics—anywhere and anytime. Backed by our service providers in
more than 100 countries, GE‘s global service network connects with
you locally for rapid response to your service needs. GE’s
Distributed Power business is headquartered in Jenbach,
Austria.
About GE Power
GE Power is a world energy leader that provides technology,
solutions and services across the entire energy value chain from
the point of generation to consumption. We are transforming the
electricity industry by uniting all the resources and scale of the
world’s first Digital Industrial company. Our customers operate in
more than 150 countries, and together we power more than a third of
the world to illuminate cities, build economies and connect the
world. For more information, visit the company's website
at www.ge.com/power. Follow GE Power on
Twitter @GE_Power and on LinkedIn at GE
Power.
About GE
GE (NYSE: GE) is the world’s digital industrial company and
changes the industry with connected, responsive and predictive
software-controlled machines and solutions. GE is organized around
a global knowledge sharing system, “GE Store”, which allows all
business units to access the same technologies, markets, structures
and intellectual property and share them with one another. Every
invention promotes other innovations and applications across
multiple business units. With people, services, technology and
scale, GE offers customers better results, as we speak the language
of the industry. www.ge.com
*Jenbacher and MyPlant are trademarks of the General Electric
Company.
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