Tamarete Energia, a special purpose firm owned by BKW Italia, HERA and Odoardo Zecca, has opened the 104MW combined-cycle power plant near Ortona, Italy.

Located in the province of Chieti in Abruzzo, the plant will be capable of generating enough electricity to power 34,500 homes in Italy.

The plant features GE's gas turbine technology, which will help balance the grid variability associated with wind and solar power generation.

GE has also provided two LM6000-PD aeroderivative gas turbine generator packages and one 8-11 MC9 impulse-type, geared steam turbine-generator to the Italian firm STC, which is the engineering, procurement and construction contractor for the plant.