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General Electric, an American industrial company, announced today it will supply power generation equipment for the Bridge Power plant project located in Tema, Ghana.

The Boston-headquartered company said the equipment – to be used in the first phase of the project – will collectively generate 200 MW of power. An additional 200 MW of power will be deployed in the second stage of the project.

GE said the equipment includes its TM2500 gas turbine generator sets and steam turbines in a combined cycle configuration. The company said it will be the first time the TM2500 gas turbines will be used in a combined cycle configuration globally.

The Bridge Power project is a 400 MW liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) import, storage, and transportation infrastructure project. It is designed to address Ghana’s long-term energy requirements by providing electricity equivalent to 17 percent of the country’s current generation capacity.

Upon completion, the project will be Africa’s first LPG-fired power plant and the world’s largest plant of its kind. The fuel-flexible plant will also be capable of being fueled by LPG, natural gas or diesel.

“The Bridge Power plant successfully brings together the need for a cost-effective fuel solution, in this case liquefied petroleum gas, with an integrated power solution driven by GE’s latest flexible technology” said Leslie Nelson, CEO, GE’s Gas Power Systems for Sub Saharan Africa.

The Bridge Power project is being developed by the Early Power Limited (EPL) consortium, which has secured a power purchase agreement (PPA) from the Electricity Corporation of Ghana (ECG).

The EPL consortium comprises of GE; Endeavor Energy, a Texas-headquartered independent power development and generation company focused on Africa; and Sage, a Ghanaian independent trading firm.