GE Vernova Hydrogen Overview

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Challenging hydrogen economy
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Low-carbon hydrogen fuel costs are trending lower, but are
expected to remain 2–10X more expensive than natural gas
at least through the end of the decade.
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Carbon taxes or other incentives may improve the
economics of hydrogen compared to fossil fuels, but
we anticipate that hydrogen will be used in longhaul
transportation, maritime shipping, and industry before it
is broadly adopted in the power sector.
Delivering value for its customers
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Power plant operators are increasingly exploring the option
to use hydrogen as a fuel and requesting OEMs to identify
their specific capability.
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GE Vernova has more experience burning hydrogen than
any other OEM. This experience goes back to the
mid-1990s and includes more than 100 gas turbines that
have accumulated more than 8 million** hours of operation.
This experience enables us to understand the unique
challenges of using hydrogen as a gas turbine fuel.
GE Vernova’s gas turbine
hydrogen capability
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Each gas turbine model has specific capability for burning
hydrogen, dictated primarily by the combustion system.
Some are capable of burning 100% today.
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Our most advanced gas turbines, the 7HAs and 9HAs, are
capable of burning as much as a 50/50 hydrogen/natural
gas blend when using the DLN2.6e combustor.
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Work is underway to increase hydrogen burning capability
across the portfolio, with a specific goal of achieving 100%
capability for the HA turbines.
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Existing gas power plants can be retrofitted to burn
higher volumes of hydrogen than originally configured for.
These upgrades can be scheduled with planned outages
to minimize plant downtime, and for new units these
capabilities can be part of the initial plant configuration or
phased in over time as hydrogen becomes available.
AEROS
B/E
F
HA
0% 20% 40% 80% 100%
60%
Today: Premixed (DLE, DLN)
Today: Diffusion
(SAC, Single Nozzle, MNQC)
Future Capability
Recent demonstration and commercial
projects that use or plan to use hydrogen
Debary Hydrogen Project (USA)
Duke Energy intends to operate their
recently upgraded 7E gas turbine
on up 100% hydrogen by volume
starting in 2025.
NYPA Brentwood (USA)
New York Power Authority
demonstrated blending hydrogen
and natural gas in an existing
LM6000 gas turbine in 2022.
Tallawarra B (Australia)
EnergyAustralia intends to begin
blending hydrogen in their new
9F.05 gas turbine starting in 2025.
This will be the first 9F gas turbine
to operate on blends of hydrogen
and natural gas.
Guangdong Huizhou (China)
Guangdong Energy Group began
operating their new 9HA.01 gas
turbines on a 10% blend of hydrogen
and natural gas starting in 2023.
** GE Vernova H2 statistics as of September 2021: inclusive of both heavy-duty
and aeroderivative gas turbines.