Gas Turbine Efficiency Introduces Automated Tuning of Gas Turbines and a New Monitoring and Diagnostics Center for Power Generation Clients

October 28, 2009

Clients will benefit from GTE’s experience in gas turbines with their new cutting-edge remote Monitoring and Diagnostics center

(ORLANDO, FL) — October 28, 2009—Gas Turbine Efficiency, plc (AIM: GTE), a leader in energy and aviation products and services, announces the commercial release of the ECOMAX ™ Automated Tuning System family of products and Monitoring and Diagnostic (M&D) services for the full product portfolio.  The ECOMAX ™ product line and M&D service provides power plant operators with a proactive and customizable performance monitoring of gas turbines that eliminates onsite gas turbine tuning, optimizes performance and increases reliability.

GTE New Monitoring and Diagnostics Center

GTE Introduces Automated Tuning of Gas Turbines and a New Monitoring and Diagnostics Center

The application of ECOMAX™ and the monitoring of gas turbine performance helps to optimize the performance of power plants, through the application of decision support systems, designed to augment existing processes. Benefits manifest themselves in the form of increased power output, efficiency gains, emissions reduction, reduced maintenance and life extension of critical, high value turbine parts.

“It is a team effort that links the capabilities of GTE with the customer’s control room, for a win-win relationship”, says Steven Zwolinski, Chief Executive Officer at GTE. “The ECOMAX™ solution, combined with our new state-of-the-art Monitoring and Diagnostics center allows us to bring critical information to the customer’s operating decision point – offering faster, more optimized solutions.”

The M&D center provides the power plant operator with a proactive method of monitoring their major equipment. The variances in fuel, ambient conditions and combustion dynamics that have typically been managed by manually tuning gas turbines are processed by the ECOMAX™ platform in real time and are acted upon automatically. In addition, GTE’s M&D center provides real-time monitoring and notification services for identification of emerging issues.

ECOMAX™ allows plant operators to set an operational objective for their turbine. Biases can be selected for output, emissions and parts life—giving the operator unprecedented flexibility and control. Pre-set software switches allow for quick and easy switching between operating modes. ECOMAX™ is completely integrated into the plants existing control system.

At first glance, GTE’s innovative M&D center resembles the main bridge on the starship Enterprise, and the features that make up its monitoring technology are equally impressive. The center’s most noticeable feature is its multiple LCD monitors, which can give engineers and customers in training a real-time, in-depth look into the performance of gas turbines in multiple international locations.

“The technology behind the M&D center allows GTE to remotely monitor from several locations and provide routine follow-up on any performance anomalies from its Orlando, Florida location; with 24/7 coverage by experienced engineers.” says Thomas Wagner CTO at GTE. “After several installations at multiple sites with proven validation, documentation and customer satisfaction of the results, we are pleased to now offer these products and services to a wider group of clients.”

To learn more, a quick-read case study and product brochure can be downloaded in the Media Center section of GTE’s corporate website and blog. GTE will be exhibiting at Power Gen 2009, the largest energy industry convention in North America, on December 8-10, 2009 in Las Vegas, NV.

About GTE

Gas Turbine Efficiency designs, manufactures and supplies proprietary cleantech energy saving and performance enhancing solutions to the power generation, oil & gas and aviation industries. The company’s extensive portfolio of patented cleantech solutions save fuel, reduce emissions, increase availability, and extend turbine and parts life. The Group also provides solutions for burning a wider variety and quality of fuels such as liquefied natural gas, clean coal, and alternative fuel blends. Products and services developed by our world-class technology team include compressor cleaning and power augmentation systems; fuels management systems; combustion design, repair, upgrade and monitoring; and fluid and control auxiliaries.

For more information about Gas Turbine Efficiency plc, its products and services please visit http://www.gtefficiency.com.

For more information:

Megan Thomas
Director of Communications
Gas Turbine Efficiency
media@gtefficiency.com
Phone: 407.304.5236

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Gas Turbine Efficiency Launches Initiative to Enhance Communication with Clients, Investors, Employees and the Community

October 23, 2009

GTE is increasing its public relations efforts to create awareness for its relevance in the market using open communication links and the latest web technology

(ORLANDO, FL) — October 23, 1009 — Gas Turbine Efficiency, plc (AIM: GTE), a leader in energy and aviation products and services, has organized and launched a new public relations effort to communicate relevant facts and insights to its clients and investors as well as industry and market influencers. GTE’s expanded corporate communication efforts will increase awareness for its energy services and aviation business, while improving relations with investors, employees, suppliers, customers and the media.

“There is much opportunity in deploying an integrated marketing communications platform to share information about GTE”, says Marcus Turner, Chief Marketing Officer at GTE. “With so many new developments in the company, this is the right time to make use of the tools and the effort to spread the message across multiple audiences worldwide”.

Gas Turbine Efficiency launches initiative to enhance communication with clients, investors, employees and the community

Gas Turbine Efficiency has launched an initiative to enhance its communication with clients, investors, employees and the community.

Consistent communication will be enabled through scheduled press releases, a GTE blog, and other forms of social media and public relations efforts as part of a sustained initiative with the support of Dream Factory Productions, an integrated marketing communications agency in Orlando.

“Social media is here to stay and only companies that choose to integrate it into their marketing strategies will succeed”, says Andres Goyanes, Chief Marketing Officer at Dream Factory Productions who is also a past president of the American Marketing Association of Central Florida. “It is the natural evolution of online marketing, branding and direct response for global companies like GTE”.

“We have been working with GTE for several years on their advertising and marketing efforts. GTE has taken the appropriate time to invest in the technology, brand and infrastructure so that an effort such as this will be relevant and valuable for the stakeholders”, says Paulo Cigagna CEO at Dream Factory Productions. “Their timing is excellent in the evolution of their company”

GTE’s products make power generation greener and more profitable by designing and delivering forward thinking cleantech solutions that improve efficiency and productivity for its energy services and aviation clients. The company recently launched its Turbine Services business group to further increase its foothold in the power generation industry.

GTE will be exhibiting at Power Gen 2009, the largest energy industry convention in North America, on December 8-10, 2009 in Las Vegas, NV.

About GTE

Gas Turbine Efficiency designs, manufactures and supplies proprietary cleantech energy saving and performance enhancing solutions to the power generation, oil & gas and aviation industries. The company’s extensive portfolio of patented cleantech solutions save fuel, reduce emissions, increase availability, and extend turbine and parts life. The Group also provides solutions for burning a wider variety and quality of fuels such as liquefied natural gas, clean coal, and alternative fuel blends. Products and services developed by our world-class technology team include compressor cleaning and power augmentation systems; fuels management systems; combustion design, repair, upgrade and monitoring; and fluid and control auxiliaries.

For more information about Gas Turbine Efficiency plc, its products and services please visit http://www.gtefficiency.com.

About Dream Factory Productions

Dream Factory Productions, Inc. is a full-service marketing, advertising and production company located at Universal Studios in Orlando, Florida. Dream Factory Productions offers both traditional and cutting edge agency solutions for global-minded companies in the United States and more than a dozen countries worldwide.

For more information about Dream Factory Productions, please visit http://www.DreamFactoryProductions.com.

For more information:

Megan Thomas
Director of Communications
Gas Turbine Efficiency
media@gtefficiency.com
Phone: 407.304.5236

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Gas Turbine Efficiency Launches Outage Management Services Group

October 20, 2009

Group will serve power plant clients with on-site major maintenance outage management, technical direction, and field services execution

(ORLANDO, FL) — October 20, 2009 — Gas Turbine Efficiency, plc (AIM: GTE), a leader in energy and aviation products and services, announces the creation of a new Turbine Services business group. This specialized business group will focus on providing technical, engineering and manpower services to gas turbine power plants requiring critical maintenance, inspections and upgrades, including quick-response to customer forced outages.

Gas Turbine Efficiency Launches Outage Management Services Group

Gas Turbine Efficiency Launches Outage Management Services Group

“This is an important and natural expansion of GTE’s portfolio of offerings. The extensive experience and track record of the team is important because the service is technically complex and is on the customer’s project critical path,” said Steven Zwolinski, Chief Executive Officer for GTE. “Every gas turbine, regardless of application or geography, requires this service at regular intervals. The new service strengthens commercial relationships with existing and new customers because it is a service that is deployed on their site, at regular recurring maintenance intervals. The new offering has been well received by GTE’s existing customers with new incremental orders for 2009 and has commitments in backlog for 2010.”

GTE’s depth of knowledge and understanding of gas turbines combined with the capabilities of the new business will help power producers minimize risk, manage costs, maintain energy production and improve productivity in their power plants.

“We have recruited a highly regarded team of technical advisors and supervisors with a proven track record and industry reputation for delivering results related to customer value and improved productivity to GTE’s current customers as well as some potential new customers for GTE,” said John Duff, incoming President for GTE’s Turbine Services. “This expanded team, backed by the extensive technical and engineering depth of the organization, is uniquely positioned to provide high quality power plant major outage execution and to enable the delivery of GTE’s innovative solutions to equipment problems and alternatives for improved equipment performance and reliability.”

Darron Pruitt, another energy industry veteran, is joining GTE and Mr. Duff in the executive management as Vice President of the GTE Turbine Services group. Mr. Pruitt brings over 40 years of experience to GTE–30 of which were with General Electric specializing in gas turbine manufacturing, installations and field services.

The Turbine Services group includes a technical advisory and field supervisory staff with combined experience of more than 200 years of industry expertise in combustion turbine assembly, field services relating to gas and steam turbines, engineering and operations management, and combustion turbine assembly. Most of these industry experts were involved with the manufacturing of the original General Electric F-class units.

GTE Turbine Services Business offers an extensive array of major maintenance program development and implementation services in addition to field service outage capabilities, such as combustion and hot gas path inspections, generator rotor removal, blade replacements, and blade inspections. The team provides field maintenance and installations on industrial gas turbines that include frame sizes ranging from GE 5001-5002, 6001B through 7001B, 7EA, 7FA and the 7H and 9H as well as Siemens-Westinghouse 251, 501D and 501F.

GTE will be exhibiting at Power Gen 2009, the largest energy industry convention in North America, on December 8-10, 2009 in Las Vegas, NV.

About GTE

Gas Turbine Efficiency designs, manufactures and supplies proprietary cleantech energy saving and performance enhancing solutions to the power generation, oil & gas and aviation industries. The company’s extensive portfolio of patented cleantech solutions save fuel, reduce emissions, increase availability, and extend turbine and parts life. The Group also provides solutions for burning a wider variety and quality of fuels such as liquefied natural gas, clean coal, and alternative fuel blends. Products and services developed by our world-class technology team include compressor cleaning and power augmentation systems; fuels management systems; combustion design, repair, upgrade and monitoring; and fluid and control auxiliaries.

For more information about Gas Turbine Efficiency plc, its products and services please visit http://www.gtefficiency.com.

For more information:

Megan Thomas
Director of Communications
Gas Turbine Efficiency
media@gtefficiency.com
Phone: 407.304.5236

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Gas Turbine Efficiency Expands Leadership with the Hiring of John Duff to the senior staff

October 13, 2009

Experienced power generation professional brings three decades of industry knowledge to GTE’s senior staff

ORLANDO, Florida — October 13, 2009 — Gas Turbine Efficiency plc (AIM: GTE), a leader in energy services and aviation products is announcing the appointment of John Duff to the senior staff. Mr. Duff will be responsible for business development and strategic power generation initiatives.

John Duff, President - Turbine Services

John Duff, President - Turbine Services

John Duff brings to GTE over 32 years of experience in the power generation industry, including more than two decades in management. Prior to joining GTE, Duff was Senior Vice President of Entegra Power Group, LLC where he was responsible for the strategic leadership of the power plant operations, maintenance, engineering, capital project management, environmental, and corporate insurance functions.

Mr. Duff’s former employer, Entegra, owns and operates 4400 MW of natural-gas-fired combined-cycle merchant capacity with a fleet of 16 General Electric Model 7FA/DLN2.6 gas turbines with heat-recovery steam generators (HRSGs) from Alstom Power Inc, and eight GE Model D11 steam turbines. Under Mr. Duff’s direction, Entegra unbundled traditional OEM long term service agreements and successfully self-performed operations and maintenance, management of outages, and modernizations and upgrades for improvements in output, heat rate, reduction of life cycle cost, improvements in availability, reliability and emissions reductions.

“Customer value has always been the highest priorities in the development of our performance and environmental solutions. John Duff brings a wealth of industry experience, knowledge, contacts and respect among the end users in the power generation community. His background complements GTE’s strong technical, operational and commercial capabilities by providing a constant validation of end customer value” said Steve Zwolinski, Chief Executive Officer at GTE. As a seasoned power generation professional, John has the knowledge and reputation to establish new connections with potential clients and develop stronger relationships with current clients.”

John Duff began his career at TECO Energy, Inc. where he worked for almost three decades, climbing through the ranks from production engineer in the regulated utility to company president at the unregulated power generation subsidiary —further supporting his qualifications as a power generation professional with the experience to help GTE achieve its strategic goals.

As an energy industry professional, John has enjoyed many successes in his life-long career, including the successful operations management of TECO’s unregulated power generation fleet from 300MW to 7000MW, and leading Entegra’s plant operations through its restructuring phase as a senior executive officer while successfully implementing their company-wide maintenance program, which produced substantial savings—an exemplary track record that complements GTE’s growth and expansion.

“John has and continues to be called upon by industry leaders for strategic input and direction” says Marcus Turner, Chief Marketing Officer at GTE. “His expertise and reputation in the regulated and unregulated power markets will serve GTE well as the company grows into the future.”

Further supporting his career’s achievements, John Duff holds a Master’s Degree in Business Administration from the University of Tampa and Bachelor of Science Degrees in both Mathematics & Physics and Mechanical Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology

GTE will be exhibiting at Power Gen 2009, the largest energy industry convention in North America, on December 8-10, 2009 in Las Vegas, NV.

About GTE

Gas Turbine Efficiency designs, manufactures and supplies proprietary cleantech energy saving and performance enhancing solutions to the power generation, oil & gas and aviation industries. The company’s extensive portfolio of patented cleantech solutions save fuel, reduce emissions, increase availability, and extend turbine and parts life. The Group also provides solutions for burning a wider variety and quality of fuels such as liquefied natural gas, clean coal, and alternative fuel blends. Products and services developed by our world-class technology team include compressor cleaning and power augmentation systems; fuels management systems; combustion design, repair, upgrade and monitoring; and fluid and control auxiliaries.

For more information about Gas Turbine Efficiency plc, its products and services please visit http://www.gtefficiency.com.

For more information:

Megan Thomas
Director of Communications
Gas Turbine Efficiency
media@gtefficiency.com
Phone: 407.304.5236

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Gas Turbine Efficiency Hires Alessandro Boursier as Business Development Director for Oil & Gas Industry

October 8, 2009

Energy services company continues to meet market demand by expanding to new locations and hiring key energy professionals to maintain industry leadership

ORLANDO, Florida — October 8, 2009 — Gas Turbine Efficiency plc (AIM: GTE), a leader is energy and aviation products and services, announces the incorporation of Alessandro Boursier as Business Development Director for Oil & Gas. In this position, Mr. Boursier will lead and manage business development operations from GTE’s newest international office in Florence, Italy, which is set to open October 2009.

Alessandro Boursier of Gas Turbine Efficiency

Alessandro Boursier of Gas Turbine Efficiency

Alessandro Boursier will be responsible for the advancement of GTE’s growth strategy in the Oil and Gas Market, defining a strategic plan and solutions portfolio to meet the emerging fuel efficiency and environmental needs of this important customer segment.

“Given the significant opportunity that GTE is experiencing in the energy market, Alessandro Boursier’s experience will help us expand our reach into new global opportunities and projects,” said Steve Zwolinski, Chief Executive Officer for GTE. “Alessandro is a welcomed addition to the GTE family and we are excited to add another outstanding professional to our team.”

In recent years, the European Union (EU) has been pushing for an increase in efficiency and decreasing emission levels from gas turbine operators in the energy industry. The goal of this initiative is to incentivize the advancement of renewable energy technologies and reducing member countries’ dependence on fossil fuels. With that in mind, GTE is increasing its industry footprint by taking an active role in the development of technologies that can lead to cleantech solutions for sustainable energy generation.

GTE has experienced steady, fast-paced growth over the past two years, prompting the addition of new positions across multiple locations in the U.S.—namely Orlando, Florida and Duncan, South Carolina—as well as in international offices in the United Kingdom, Sweden, Russia and Italy.

Prior to joining GTE, Mr. Boursier was employed with General Electric’s Oil & Gas division as their Upgrades Business Development Leader. Alessandro brings to the company 8 years of industry experience in Project Management, Sales & Marketing and Product Management, supported by his background in mechanical engineering.

“We are pleased with the incorporation of Alessandro Boursier to our business development team,” said Marcus Turner, Chief Marketing Officer for GTE. “His international background and business development experience in the oil & gas segment of the energy services industry will serve our company well in this stage of growth.”

About GTE

Gas Turbine Efficiency designs, manufactures and supplies proprietary cleantech energy saving and performance enhancing solutions to the power generation, oil & gas and aviation industries. The company’s extensive portfolio of patented cleantech solutions save fuel, reduce emissions, increase availability, and extend turbine and parts life. The Group also provides solutions for burning a wider variety and quality of fuels such as liquefied natural gas, clean coal, and alternative fuel blends. Products and services developed by our world-class technology team include compressor cleaning and power augmentation systems; fuels management systems; combustion design, repair, upgrade and monitoring; and fluid and control auxiliaries.

For more information about Gas Turbine Efficiency plc, its products and services please visit http://www.gtefficiency.com.

For more information:

Megan Thomas
Director of Communications
Gas Turbine Efficiency
media@gtefficiency.com
Phone: 407.304.5236

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