General Electric Company (GE) has secured three contracts worth $2.7bn from Societe Algerienne de Production d'electricite (SPE), an affiliate of Sonelgaz, to supply heavy-duty gas turbine combined-cycle and aeroderivative gas turbine technology for nine power plants in Algeria.

Under the three contracts, GE will supply a total of 26 heavy-duty gas turbines, 12 steam turbines and 38 generators for the nine plants located in the northern part of the country.

The first contract worth $1.9bn will see GE supplying 9F 3-series gas turbines equipped with its Dry Low NOx (DLN) dual-fuel combustion technology for six new combined-cycle power plants, which will have a total capacity of more than 8GW, enough to power around eight million Algerian households. As per the second contract, GE delivered its 24 trailer-mounted TM2500+ advanced aeroderivative gas turbines to two fast-track projects totaling 528MW capacity, which will help in meeting the country's 2013 summer peak electricity demand.

The third contract valued at $150m, requires GE to supply power generation equipment to SPE's 370MW Hassi R'mel simple-cycle gas turbine plant.