General Electric Company

Jeffrey Richard Lucas

Mark Stewart Schroder

Sergey Anatolyevich Tikhonovsky

A method relating to pricing under a contractual service agreement between a customer and a service provider, where the service provider provides maintenance services on a generating unit for a fee. An output of the generating unit is produced by a generator to which the generating unit is operably connected. The method comprising: determining a usage period for the generating unit; monitoring the output of the generating unit during the usage period and, therefrom, designating an output level for the generating unit for the usage period; calculating the fee for the usage period pursuant to a variable pricing plan, the variable pricing plan comprising a price for calculating the fee that varies depending on the designated output level of generating unit for the usage period; and billing the calculated fee to the customer.

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Brookhaven, GA, United States of America

Jeffrey Richard Lucas