Alliance with Cummins Provides Expanded Presence in North American Power Generation Market

GPB15X gas turbine-powered generation system

 Kawasaki signed a distribution agreement in December 2002 with Cummins Power Generation, a business unit of Cummins, Inc. A leading manufacturer of power generation sets with 31 distributors in North America, Cummins Power Generation will sell Kawasaki's industrial gas turbine-powered generation systems.

 The pact will enable Kawasaki to increase North American sales of GPB15X* gas turbine packages, featuring extremely low NOx emission technology, and the GPB60D/70D, equipped with the 7 MW gas turbine M7A. Via Cummins' sales and service channels, Kawasaki will promote its gas turbine generation systems not only under the Kawasaki brand but also under the Cummins-Kawasaki cobrand.

 The GPB15X, which debuted in December 2000, meets California’s ultrastrict NOx emissions standards, 2.5 parts per million (ppm) (O2=15%). Targeted at the North American market, where distributed power generation is growing in popularity, the GPB15X was recently retrofitted to an existing installation at the Sonoma Developmental Center in California, and ordered by the Reader’s Digest Association in New York. Some 50 units of the GPB60D/70D, one of Kawasaki’s flagship products, have been installed worldwide since 1994. It now comes in both simple and combined cycle models which increases the number of potential applications for this family of turbines.

 *The GPB15X features Kawasaki’s 1.5 MW gas turbine M1A-13 and is equipped with a XononTM catalytic combustor that achieves extremely low NOx emissions. Xonon is a registered trademark of Catalytica Energy Systems, Inc. of the U.S.