at 66 kV.
The scope of supply includes the
design and manufacture of array cables
to suit MHI Vestas V164-8.0
MW floating turbines. The wind turbines
will be connected via a network
of inter-array cables to a single
export cable.
The WindFloat Atlantic project is
located 20 km off the coast at Viana
do Castelo and is planned to be operational
in 2018.
Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems
(MHPS) has signed a contract with
Société Tunisienne de l’Electricité et
du Gaz (STEG) for the construction
of a 450 MW gas fired combined cycle
power plant in Rades, in Ben
Arous Governorate, Tunisia.
The new plant will be located
around 10 km from Tunis and will
account for ten per cent of the country’s
installed generating capacity
when it starts operating in 2019.
MHPS will build the new power
plant on an engineering, procurement
and construction (EPC) basis. Sumitomo
Corporation will provide balance
of plant as well as civil and installation
work.
MHPS will provide a M701F gas
turbine, a heat recovery steam generator
and a steam turbine, and dispatch
technical advisors and supervisors
to support during the installation
and commissioning periods. Mitsubishi
Electric Corporation will provide
generators.
Burmeister & Wain Scandinavian
Contractor (BWSC) has won a €90
million contract to build a power plant
in Kayes, Mali.
The 90 MW facility will increase
generating capacity in Mali by
around 25 per cent and is being developed
by Redox Power Solutions.
BWSC’s contract covers operation
and maintenance of the plant for at
least 13 years.
Gardabani TPP 2 LLC has awarded
Pöyry with the owner’s engineer services
contract for the Gardabani II
230 MW combined cycle power plant
project in Georgia.
Pöyry’s assignment includes review
services for Basic Engineering Design
(BED), review services for detailed
engineering, quality assurance plans
and procedures, site supervision and
project management services.
Gardabani TPP 2, a subsidiary
company of JSC Georgian Oil and
Gas Corporation (GOGC), has
signed a turnkey engineering, procurement
and construction contract
with China Tianchen Engineering
Corporation (TCC) for the power
plant, located in Gardabani.
Enel Russia has been awarded the
rights to build two wind farms in Russia
with a total installed capacity of
291 MW.
The company will invest around
€450 million in the projects, which
will be developed and built by Enel
Green Power.
The first wind farm with the capacity
of 90 MW will be built in the
Rostov region and is scheduled for
commissioning in 2020. The second
wind farm with the installed capacity
of 201 MW will be constructed in
the Murmansk region and put into
operation in 2021.
GE secures first Mexico
order for HA
GE has secured its first order in Mexico
for its 7HA.01 advanced gas turbine
technology.
The company has signed a contract
with Iberdrola for the supply of
equipment for the Topolobampo III
power plant, which is due to start operating
in 2020 and which will have
a capacity of 766 MW.
The Topolobampo III power plant
will use two 7HA.01 gas turbines, a
D650 steam turbine, three generators
and two heat recovery steam generators
(HRSGs) and the plant control
system from GE’s extended scope
portfolio.
According to Iberdrola, the plant
will support efforts to meet growing
energy demand in Mexico. Electricity
demand is growing at three times
the rate of the OECD average in the
country, and electricity consumption
is expected to grow by 50 per cent in
the next 25 years.
Clay Electric Cooperative has contracted
Omnetric, the Siemens-Accenture
joint venture, to implement a
meter data management system as part
of the Clay’s Advanced Metering Infrastructure
(AMI) deployment.
Clay Electric Cooperative is one of
the largest cooperatives in the United
States, serving more than 170 000
members in north central Florida.
The solution, which is based on Siemens
EnergyIP and is currently being
deployed, will enable the co-op to
improve its customer service, reliability
and operational efficiency.
Omnetric’s solution will provide
Clay Electric Cooperative with a
comprehensive meter data management
system enabling it to run an improved
customer billing process, one
that aims to eventually include additional
functionality, for example the
ability to offer prepay options to
members. It will also allow for future
integration with Clay Electric Cooperative’s
outage management system.
The National Grid Corporation of the
Philippines (NGCP) has awarded a
contract to First Balfour Inc. for the
construction of the Hermosa-San Jose
500 kV transmission line project.
NGCP is undertaking a number of
new backbone projects to assure the
long-term adequacy and reliability of
its grid in the face of rising electricity
demand. The First Balfour contract
for the Hermosa-San Jose 500 kV
transmission line project calls for the
construction of 230 steel towers over
an 83 km stretch between the New
Hermosa 500 kV substation in Hermosa,
Bataan; and the San Jose substation
in San Jose, Bulacan.
The Hermosa-San Jose project,
which is targeted for completion
within 18 months, aims to meet the
transmission requirements of Metro
Manila and Central Luzon.
Landis+Gyr has announced that its
work on CLP Power’s advanced metering
infrastructure (AMI) platform
in Hong Kong is now operational.
The AMI platform enables Hong
Kong power utility CLP Power to
gain timely access to electricity consumption
information via smart meters.
It also creates an opportunity for
the utility’s customers to save energy.
This, in turn, enables customers to
adopt smarter and greener lifestyles
through the informed energy choices
they are now able to make.
In addition, the platform facilitates
monitoring of power supply conditions
and further enhances supply reliability,
safety and operational efficiency.
“Over time, this project will provide
both the platform and the customer
engagement tools that are key
enabling technologies for the development
of Hong Kong into a smarter
city,” said Ellie Doyle, Executive
Vice President of Asia Pacific at
Landis+Gyr.
Siemens has received an order from
the state-run energy provider, Bangladesh
Rural Electrification Board
(BREB), to supply 46 transformer
substations for Bangladesh.
The €40 million order includes the
design, delivery and installation as
well as testing and commissioning of
the substations, which have a voltage
level of 33 and 11 kV. The equipment
will be deployed in the states of
Dhaka, Chittagong and Sylhet, and
will help to increase electricity supplies
to rural areas.
The scope of supply also includes
the power transformers, the outdoor
vacuum circuit-breakers with converters,
the insulators with and without
grounding switches, the converters for
outdoor installation as well as 11 kV
switchgear for indoor installation.
Atkins has been selected by Power-
China Huadong Engineering Co. Ltd
(HDEC) to design the offshore substation
platform at State Power Investment
Corporation’s (SPIC) 300 MW
Binhai South Phase 3 offshore wind
farm in the Yellow Sea.
Working collaboratively with
HDEC, Atkins will be part of helping
China to grow a self-sustainable domestic
offshore wind industry and to
realise its renewable energy ambitions.
It will be one of the first British
companies to work on a Chinese offshore
wind farm.
Andy Thompson, Atkins’ market
lead for offshore engineering, said:
“This project is a tremendous opportunity
for international collaboration that
will benefit the evolution of offshore
wind expertise and help ensure the industry
continues to grow as a reliable
source of energy. In line with our strategic
ambitions to expand our offshore
wind business into new areas, our first
step into China working with SPIC
and HDEC is an exciting one.”
Goldwind Australia has reached an
in-principle agreement with state
government-owned electricity retailer
Aurora Energy to build a 144
MW wind park in Tasmania.
The Australian unit of Chinese wind
turbine maker Xinjiang Goldwind
Science & Tech Co Ltd. will build
the $300 million facility at Wild
Cattle Hill in the Central Highlands.
Construction work is set to start in
September 2017. The scheme will
increase Tasmania’s wind generating
capacity by almost 50 per cent.
Europe
Beleolico Srl, a Belenergia S.A. affiliate,
has appointed Senvion as the
supplier of wind turbines for the
Taranto wind farm, the first offshore
wind farm in the Mediterranean sea.
Taranto will have a rated power of
30 MW and will feature ten Senvion
3.0M122 wind turbines, each with a
hub height of 100 m. They will be
installed in front of Taranto harbour
in the Apulia region (Southern Italy),
in a water depth of 4-18 m.
Delivery and installation of the turbines
is currently planned in summer
2018, while their commissioning is expected
to take place in autumn 2018.
Nordex Group has been awarded three
new contracts for a total capacity of
36 MW in France.
The orders, from three different
project developers, involve the supply
and installation of thirteen
N131/3000, N117/3000 and
N117/2400 turbines. Work on the
wind farms is to commence this year.
Nordex will be installing its
N131/3000 turbine in France for the
first time. With a rotor diameter of
131 m, it will be the largest turbine
installed in France to date.
Vestas has won a contract to build the
largest wind farm in Greece.
Under the contract, Vestas will supply
25 units of V136-3.45 MW turbines
in 3.6 MW Power Optimised
Mode.
The turbines will be installed at
the Kassidiaris wind park complex
in the region of Epirus in northwestern
Greece.
The scope of the contract includes
supply and installation of the wind
turbines, as well as a 20-year ‘Active
Output Management 4000’ service
agreement to optimise energy output
at all times.
Vestas will start the delivery of the
wind turbines in the first quarter of
2018.
German utility Energie Baden-Wuerttemberg
(EnBW) has selected Senvion
for the delivery of local wind
farms totalling several hundred MW.
The two companies have signed a
deal that makes Senvion EnBW’s
exclusive cooperation partner in upcoming
auctions for wind farms in
Germany. The projects will use
Senvion’s 3.4M140 low-speed wind
turbines.
Following the 497 MW order for the
EnBW Hohe See offshore wind power
plant, EnBW has also awarded Siemens
Gamesa Renewable Energy
with the installation of the neighbouring
112-MW-project EnBW Albatros.
EnBW Albatros is the first German
offshore wind power plant that Siemens
will supply as a full-scope
project. Furthermore, it includes the
entry of the compact Siemens OTM
(Offshore Transformer Module) to
the German market. The ultra-compact
design of the platform not only
reduces installation costs due to its
low weight, but also reduces service
and maintenance efforts.
Siemens Gamesa will install Hohe
See and Albatros in parallel. Installation
will start in spring 2018.
Overall, EnBW aims to put a total
of 1000 MW of onshore wind generating
capacity by 2020.
Hartlepool-based subsea cable specialist
JDR has been selected by
WindPlus as the preferred cable supplier
for the 25 MW WindFloat Atlantic
floating wind farm.
The project – located off the coast
of Viana de Castelo, northern Portugal
– will see the industry’s first application
of dynamic cables operating
Americas
Asia-Pacific
NGCP, First Balfour ink
transmission deal
Landis+Gyr, CLP deliver
smart city vision
Siemens supplies
transformer stations
French hat trick for
Nordex
Vestas wins Greece
contract
Senvion and Siemens win
EnBW contracts
JDR selected for
WindFloat
STEG signs up MHPS
BWSC wins Mali contract
Pöyry awarded owner’s
engineer contract
Enel Russia invests in
wind farms
Atkins to design offshore
substation
Goldwind signs Australia
deal
Clay contracts Omnetric
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