GE Power & Water's Distributed Power business signed a contract to provide Sky Global Partners (Sky Global) with its Jenbacher gas engine technology along with a 30-year contractual service agreement for a new 50-MW high-efficiency power plant in Colorado County, Texas, near San Bernard's Rock Island substation. This represents the largest North American power project for GE's Jenbacher J920 FleXtra gas engine so far. Under the agreement, GE is providing six of its ecomagination qualified 8.6-MW J920 FleXtra ultra-fast response, natural gas-fired engine generator sets for the Sky Global Power One project. Sky Global will sell peaking power generation to the San Bernard Electric Cooperative. GE expects the equipment to ship June 2015, with the first commercial power available in early 2016.
