GE ready to showcase hydropower, RE capabilities in PHL

By Lenie Lectura – February 20, 2019
from Business Mirror

GE Philippines is looking at possible opportunities to showcase its technology in the power sector, particularly hydropower and battery-energy storage.

“We are focusing on renewable energy and gas. We are seeing some hydro. We are trying to see pump storage,” GE Philippines President Jose Emmanuel de Dios said.

With solutions for wind, hydro, biogas and solar, GE is fully equipped to support the Philippines’s RE targets.

“We hear a lot of people talking about hydro than solar,” he added.

GE equips 25 percent of hydropower assets worldwide. “We have more than 25 percent installed global hydropower capacity,” de Dios said.

The company is also looking to pilot battery energy storage with a capacity of 4 megawatt (MW) hours.

“We are seeing interest in the region,” he added.

Also, the world’s largest installed (48 gigawatt) base of pumped storage plants in operation or under construction is equipped with GE technology.

GE offers unique hydro solutions based on project-specific, cutting-edge and digital technologies to deliver the greatest value to customers. Smarter and more connected, GE’s hydro plants no longer just generate power; they store it and deliver it to the grid with an unmatched level of flexibility and efficiency. GE is the only digital-industrial company that can provide choices for the entire value chain of a hydropower plant.

GE also offers a full suite of onshore and offshore wind turbines. The company’s wind turbines are uniquely suited to meet the needs of customers globally.

GE supplied the steam turbine and generator for the Masinloc power plant.