GE awarded world record for most efficient combined-cycle power plant

Posted on 27 Jun 2016 by Aiden Burgess
GE workers in Belfort, France, are assembling the record-breaking 9HA gas turbine for Bouchain which set the GE World Record - image courtesy of GE Power.

General Electric (GE) has been recognised by the Guinness Book of Records for powering the world’s most efficient combined-cycle power plant.

GE took the Guinness World Records title for most efficient power plant based on an achieved efficiency rate of up to 62.22% at its Bouchain power plant in France. GE and EDF Energy officially began operation this month of the first ever combined-cycle power plant equipped with GE’s HA turbine in Bouchain. The launch brings about…

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