Aug 2 2005
Siemens Power Generation (PG) together with its consortium partner Marubeni Corp., Japan, will build a new turnkey 700-megawatt combined cycle power plant in the Songkhla Province, Thailand. The contract which was signed today in Bangkok, was awarded by the utility EGAT Public Co. Ltd. Due to an increasing power demand in Thailand the construction of further new power plants is anticipated in the near future.
Siemens is to lead the consortium and will supply two gas turbines, a steam turbine, three generators as well as the instrumentation & control system and auxiliaries. Marubeni will be responsible for procuring the heat recovery boilers, civil works, and balance of plant.
In Thailand electricity demand is increasing as major industries in the fields of metalworking, textile, paper and rubber need more power for their production facilities. Electricity demand is expected to increase by about 2,200 megawatts per year on average between 2007 and 2015. The Songkhla power plant, located in Chana district, in Songkhla province in the South of Thailand, is scheduled to come on line in early 2008. The plant will be fired by natural gas supplied from off-shore gas fields developed jointly by Thailand and Malaysia. Songkhla is the second big power plant project that Siemens erects for EGAT, after the 750- MW combined cycle power plant Bang Pakong.
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