HOUSTON, TEXAS - September 21, 2004 :- GE Energy's optimization and control business has announced the opening of a Customer Application Center (CAC) in Singapore. The new CAC will provide an enhanced customer experience with products and solutions that improve plant reliability and productivity for the power generation, oil and gas, pulp and paper, cement and mining segments.

E.ON's Leiden Power Station is a natural gas-fired combined heat and power (CHP) operation consisting of heat recovery steam generators and a steam turbine. It supplies the towns of Leiden and Leiderdorp with district heating and also produces power for the grid.

GE Energy's DLE technology LM2500+ aeroderivative gas turbines will continue to operate using natural gas and will reduce NOx and carbon monoxide (CO) emissions levels to 25 ppm or below. The current Rolls Royce Olympus gas turbines operate unabated. With the two LM2500+ DLE gas turbines, the plant will produce approximately 100,000 lbs./hr. of steam per gas turbine.

"At ISO conditions, GE Energy's gas turbines will generate approximately 29 megawatts per gas turbine and about 13-14 megawatts on the steam turbine, an improvement over E.ON's current site of about 35 percent on the gas turbines," said Dan Werrell, general manager of services operations for GE Energy's aeroderivative division. "In the past, we have retrofitted existing LM technology gas turbines to accommodate newer GE technology, but this is the first time we have converted a non-GE site."

GE and E.ON Benelux have also agreed to develop a maintenance management service agreement, covering scheduled and unscheduled work through 2010.

Commissioning of the new units is scheduled to occur in late November 2004 for the first unit and June 2005 for the second unit. E.ON Benelux supplies electrical power and district heating to distributors and major customers as well as energy related services to industrial clients in the Netherlands.

E.ON has its own production capacity, international purchasing potential and a professional sales organization.

GE Energy's aeroderivative division is a leading supplier of aeroderivative gas turbines for industrial and marine applications and is also the world's largest and most experienced aeroderivative gas turbine service provider. It provides power-generating equipment to utilities, industries, oil & gas customers and marine fleets throughout the world. In addition, the company provides comprehensive maintenance coverage and is dedicated to helping its customers improve their operations through reduced plant downtime, improved efficiency, and enhanced power or production output.

About GE Energy

GE Energy (www.ge.com/energy) is one of the world's leading suppliers of power generation and energy delivery technology, with 2003 revenues of nearly $18.5 billion. Based in Atlanta, Georgia, GE Energy provides equipment, service and management solutions across the power generation, oil and gas, transmission and distribution, distributed power and energy rental industries.

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