Jul 19 2005
The Siemens Power Generation Group (PG) has secured orders in Germany and Norway for the turnkey construction of two combined cycle power plants with a total value of approximately EUR600 million. The Norwegian energy corporation Statkraft is purchaser of the Hürth-Knapsack power plant, and the contract for the plant Kårstø in Norway was awarded by the project company Naturkraft AS, Lysaker.
Siemens will build an 800-megawatt combined cycle power plant for Statkraft in the Knapsack chemical industrial park near Cologne-Hürth in Germany. The PG scope of supply will encompass turnkey construction of the power plant equipped with two gas turbines, one steam turbine, three generators and the entire electrical and I&C equipment. Siemens also will handle gas turbine maintenance for a period of 12 years. The plant is scheduled to be completed in the summer of 2007.
Siemens PG also received an order for a turnkey 420-megawatt combined cycle plant from Naturkraft AS for the Kårstø project located north of Stavanger in Norway. Naturkraft AS is a project company in which Statkraft and Norsk Hydro each have a 50 percent stake. For this plant Siemens will supply the gas turbine, the steam turbine and the generator. The scope of services also includes a maintenance agreement over a term of six years. The plant will be Norway’s first commercial gas-fired power plant. Due to its advanced catalyst technology, the plant will set new environmental compatibility benchmarks in Europe. Plant commissioning is scheduled for the fall of 2007.
Siemens is a pioneer in the field of combined cycle technology in which gas and steam turbines are combined to further enhance plant efficiency. In 1983, the company built its first power plant of this type in Bang Pakong in Thailand. “Since then, combined cycle power plants made by Siemens have become preferred technology,” stated Klaus Voges, President of Siemens Power Generation. To date, Siemens PG has been involved worldwide in the construction of approximately 450 combined cycle power plants, of which the Siemens Group has implemented more than 100 projects on a turnkey basis. “Following the plants in Herdecke and Hamm-Uentrop, Knapsack is the third order for construction of a combined cycle plant that we have secured in Germany since May 2005,” said Voges.
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