GE’s advanced tech to extend electricity access in Myanmar

GE technology will shortly be helping Myanmar expand its electricity outreach in Myanmar.

In 2014, 70 percent of Myanmar’s households lacked access to electricity. The Myanmar National Electrification Plan aims to electrify 100% of Myanmar’s households by 2030. In support of this, Sembcorp Utilities has ordered two high-efficiency 6F.03 gas turbines from the company GE as well as the associated steam turbines and Heat Recovery Steam Generators (HRSGs) for its 225-megawatt Myingyan power project being built in Mandalay.

The new power plant is expected to go online in early 2018, supplying power to the national grid. “This is an important project to deliver additional power to drive our growing economy,” said Minister of Electricity and Energy U Pe Zin Tun. “We are confident the stakeholders in this project, the IPP – Sembcorp Utilities – and their partners, Jurong Engineering and GE, will deliver a modern, high technology and efficient combined cycle power plant in Myanmar.”  (Courtesy of mizzima.com)