S&S Energy Products, a GE Power Systems business, wasawarded a $280 million contract from Reliant Energy of Houston toprovide 19 GE LM6000 aeroderivative gas turbine-generator sets,auxiliary and balance-of-plant equipment.

“The acquisition of GE’s state-of-the-art aeroderivative gasturbines from S&S Energy Products provides us with uniquecapabilities to complete our power projects in the Midwest andoffer our customers an in-service date as early as the summer of2000,” said Carolyn Marsh, vice president, Reliant Energy PowerGeneration.

Reliant Energy will operate the gas turbines in simple- cyclemode for peaking power. Some units will begin service this summer,with the remaining slated for operation next summer. Reliant plansto use eight of the units at a site in Shelby County, IL.

S&S Energy Products will fabricate and assemble the LM6000gas turbine-generator packages at its Houston manufacturingfacility. “To meet the tremendous increase in power needsthroughout the United States, S&S Energy Products hasexperienced a significant rise in gas turbine demand,” said MarkAxford, vice president of North American Sales for S&S EnergyProducts. “This is evidenced by the sale of 88 GE LM gas turbine-generator sets, including the 19 Reliant Energy units, in 1999.”S&S Energy Products is headquartered in Houston.

©Copyright 2000 Intelligence Press Inc. All rights reserved. Thepreceding news report may not be republished or redistributed, inwhole or in part, in any form, without prior written consent ofIntelligence Press, Inc.