Italian Michelin Facility Gets New Generator

Elyo Italia recently purchased an LM6000-PD aeroderivative gas turbine generator and 12-year contractual service agreement (CSA) from GE Energy’s aeroderivative business for a combined heat and power (CHP) plant located within the Michelin tyre manufacturing facility in Cuneo, Italy.

The unit will generate 38 megawatts with approximately 40 per cent used to feed the Michelin facility and the excess will be sold to the national utility. The gas turbine generator’s primary fuel will be pipeline-quality natural gas and it will operate in combined cycle, continuous duty in the industrial plant.

Elyo Italia is a division of ELYO S.A. (Nanterre, France), which has signed a long-term power and steam supply agreement with Michelin for its factory in Cuneo. Elyo Italia will build, own and operate the combined-cycle plant based on GE Energy’s LM6000-PD gas turbine generator.