- GE Providing Golden Valley Electric Association's Healy Power Plant with Mobile Water Filtration System
- Mobile Reverse Osmosis System to Provide Clean Water for 90 Days
- Plant Location Approximately 300 Miles South of the Arctic Circle Presents Unique Challenges
TREVOSE, Pa., March 18, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- GE (NYSE:GE) today announced it will commission a reverse osmosis (RO) mobile water filtration system at the Golden Valley Electric Association (GVEA) coal-fired power plant in Healy, Alaska. The GE system will provide the plant with clean water during a planned outage to upgrade the plant's water treatment system and environmental controls and facilitate the start up of Unit 2. The total power output of the facility once Unit 2 is online will be 80 megawatts. The two-unit station is located approximately 300 miles south of the Arctic Circle.
The GVEA Healy plant will require GE's mobile water filtration system for approximately 90 days while work is being completed.
"Having access to clean water for our Healy plant is a crucial step in supporting our ongoing investment in upgrading our environmental controls and replacing older equipment to achieve a successful restart this coming summer," said Lynn Thompson, vice president, power supply for GVEA. "This is an important, multimillion dollar project and GE's partnership is key to maintaining uptime."
The Healy power plant is located in the Alaskan Interior, which is an area known for harsh weather conditions and logistical challenges.
"We are pleased that GVEA selected GE's RO mobile water solution, which will provide the Healy plant with clean water needed during this planned outage and upgrade period, " said Yuvbir Singh, general manager, engineered systems—water and process technologies for GE Power & Water. "This project, located in Alaska's Interior, further underscores GE's capabilities to deliver emergency power and water solutions to even the most remote locations around the world."
The mobile water treatment system includes a state-of-the-art trailer containing various filter vessels and a 100 gallon-per-minute RO unit. The product water from the RO system will be further purified by ion-exchange tanks to attain the quality necessary for boiler feedwater at the plant. To minimize replacement of the ion-exchange tanks, the RO system was upgraded to include an internal product water recycling system.
GVEA's mission is to provide its member-owners with quality electric service, quality customer service and innovative energy solutions at fair and reasonable prices. The cooperative operates and maintains 3,177 miles of transmission and distribution lines and 34 substations. GVEA's system is interconnected with Fort Wainwright, Eielson Air Force Base, Fort Greely, the University of Alaska-Fairbanks and all electric utilities in the Alaska Railbelt, which extends from Homer to Fairbanks.
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GE Power & Water provides customers with a broad array of power generation, energy delivery and water process technologies to solve their challenges locally. Power & Water works in all areas of the energy industry including renewable resources such as wind and solar; biogas and alternative fuels; and coal, oil, natural gas and nuclear energy. The business also develops advanced technologies to help solve the world's most complex challenges related to water availability and quality. Power & Water's six business units include Distributed Power, Nuclear Energy, Power Generation Products, Power Generation Services, Renewable Energy and Water & Process Technologies. Headquartered in Schenectady, N.Y., Power & Water is GE's largest industrial business.
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For more information, contact:
Angie Hansen
GE Power & Water
+1 215 942 3511
angie.hansen@ge.com
Beth Coffman or Howard Masto
Masto Public Relations
+1 518 786 6488
beth.coffman@mastopr.com
howard.masto@ge.com
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