FlexEnergy Completes Delivery Of Forty MT250 Gas Turbines To Distributed Generating Company

Portsmouth /PRNewswire-iReach/ - Between January and the end of June, FlexEnergy manufactured and shipped 10MW of MT250 gas turbine generators that DGC will deploy among its customer base. DGC serves mid-size industrial customers throughout the Russian Federation who are interested in ultra-reliable, low-cost, clean energy supply to their facilities. Customers will commit to long-term power purchase agreements with DGC, which will use FlexEnergy turbines to transition customer sites away from the electricity grid, which is expensive and frequently suffers from interruptions. The FlexEnergy turbines will be used most typically to provide a site's base-load.

DGC selected FlexEnergy equipment following a lengthy assessment of other turbine providers. Critical to DGC's determination was the unique ability of FlexEnergy turbines to perform closed-transition dual mode operation, meaning FlexEnergy's turbines can maintain or pick up site loads without interruption if the electricity grid fails. This capability is not possible with other micro-turbines. DGC also concluded that by avoiding any reliance on batteries to handle load – made possible by the FlexEnergy turbine system's use of a synchronous generator – FlexEnergy turbines would offer DGC's customers lower long term maintenance and greater reliability. DGC ordered all turbines with the factory fitted hot water cogeneration module, unique to the FlexEnergy turbines, which means no ancillary heat recovery work is required once the turbines arrive at customers' sites. Each of the foregoing was highlighted as a key factor in DGC's selection of FlexEnergy as its technology partner.

FlexEnergy is a privately-held, New Hampshire (USA) based business with direct sales offices in the USA, the UK and Singapore and with a growing distributor base internationally. FlexEnergy manufactures small gas turbines providing highly reliable, low maintenance and low emissions electricity and heat to customers globally, often in remote areas where the electrical grid can be unreliable, expensive or absent altogether. Developed over the course of two decades by Ingersoll Rand before being acquired by FlexEnergy in 2010, FlexEnergy's turbine fleet has registered in excess of 3 million operating hours since commercial inception. FlexEnergy's turbines are deployed in domestic regions and international markets where stranded gases are otherwise flared, local power grids prove to be expensive or unreliable, or distributed generation requires low emissions standards. FlexEnergy's 250kW and 333kW turbines are the only turbines in their class that offer the more robust synchronous generator technology utilized in larger gas turbines that make it uniquely capable of handling varying or cycling loads, which offers a significant advantage in the field. Additionally, Flex combustion technology allows its turbines to combust a wider range of gases, offering an advantage when using flare gas as fuel. These differentiating factors distinguish FlexEnergy as manufacturing the highest quality and most robust small capacity turbines available. Please visit us at http://flexenergy.com to learn more.