THE ENERGY INDUSTRY TIMES - OCTOBER 2018
10 Tenders, Bids & Contracts
French companies to procure a part
of the technology associated with
this contract.
The first on-site operations will begin
in 2019, coinciding with the
fourth ten-yearly inspections of the
900 MWe series reactors. These
works are scheduled to be carried out
on 32 reactors.
The WindPlus consortium has signed
a firm contract supply agreement with
MHI Vestas Offshore Wind for a 25
MW floating wind power project in
Portugal.
MHI Vestas will install three V164-
8.4 MW turbines on Principle Power’s
triangular, semi-submersible
WindFloat foundations. The socalled
WindFloat Atlantic project
will be executed about 20 km off the
coast of the Norte Region at a sea
depth of 100 m.
The Kuwait National Petroleum
Company (KNPC) has initiated a tender
for the installation of up to 1.5
GW of solar power capacity.
The Dabdaba solar complex will be
constructed within the Al-Shagaya
Renewable Energy Park, near the
Saudi Arabian border. According to
the tender notification, the scope of
work includes the supply and construction
of the solar park, and operations
and maintenance (O&M) for 25
years.
The deadline for submitting bids is
December 16, 2018. Winners in the
competitive selection will have to
meet a 30 per cent local content requirement
for both equipment and
services.
Siemens has been selected by the
Egyptian Electricity Holding Company
(EEHC) to provide operation and
maintenance services for the Beni
Suef, New Capital and Burullus power
plants for the next eight years.
The agreement is the largest ever
for the Siemens Power Generation
Services in terms of power generated,
and includes the implementation of
the company’s Omnivise digital service
solutions.
Each of the three 4.8 GW power
plants is considered to be the largest
gas-fired combined cycle plant ever
built and operated. Together the
plants represent approximately 40
per cent of Egypt’s power capacity.
The multi-year agreement covers
all on-site equipment including 24
gas turbines, twelve steam turbines,
36 generators, 24 heat recovery
steam generators and three 500 kV
gas-insulated switchgear systems.
Fuji Electric has won a contract to supply
a new 70 MW geothermal unit at
the Olkaria I power plant in Kenya.
The order was placed by Japan’s
Marubeni Corp, which recently announced
that it has secured a full
turnkey contract for the construction
of the geothermal facility in Nakuru
County. The engineering, procurement
and construction (EPC) deal
was awarded to Marubeni by stateowned
power producer Kenya Electricity
Generating Co Ltd.
The Olkaria I facility is Kenya’s
first geothermal power station. It currently
runs five turbines with a combined
capacity of 185 MW. Marubeni
and Fuji will build the sixth power
generation unit. The expected year of
commercial operation is 2021.
Capital Power has placed an order with
Vestas for 202 MW for the Whitla wind
power project in Alberta, Canada.
Vestas will provide its V136-3.45
MW wind turbines delivered in power
optimised mode for the project,
which is scheduled to start operating
at the end of 2019.
The Whitla project is one of four
projects selected by the Alberta Electric
System Operator in Alberta’s
first renewable energy auction in
2017. The order includes supply and
commissioning of the turbines as
well as a ten-year service agreement,
Vestas said.
Danish wind turbine maker Vestas
Wind Systems has received an order
for 144 MW of turbines from Avangrid
Renewables for a wind project
in Illinois, USA.
The turbines will be installed in the
Otter Creek wind farm. Vestas will
supply and commission V136-3.45
MW turbines delivered in 3.6 MW
power optimised mode at the site.
The deal also includes a multi-year
service agreement.
South Field Energy has selected engineering
firm Bechtel to design and
build the $1.3 billion, 1182 MW South
Field Energy combined cycle gas turbine
(CCGT) plant in Ohio.
Bechtel will be responsible for the
engineering, procurement and construction
of the power plant, which
will use General Electric power generation
equipment including two natural
gas turbines. The plant will be a
dual-fuel facility with ultra low sulphur
diesel used as back-up.
A 3 km gas pipeline also will be
built to link the plant with an existing
Dominion pipeline about 3 km west
of the 35 hectare plant site located in
the village of Wellsville. The plant
will be owned by an investor group
comprising Advanced Power, Kyushu
Electric Power, NH-Amundi
Asset Management and PIA Investment
Management, RS Global Capital
Investment (a joint venture between
Development Bank of Japan
and Showa Shell Sekiyu), Shikoku
Electric Power Co., and an affiliate
of Bechtel Development.
Upon completion in the second
quarter of 2021, Advanced Power
will manage the gas-fired plant and
its energy, capacity and ancillary services
will be sold into PJM Interconnection
markets.
Vestas has marked its entry to the
Bolivian wind energy market with a
108 MW order for three wind farms.
The San Julin, Warnes, and El Dorado
wind farms, all located in the
municipalities of Cocota, Warnes and
Cabezas in Santa Cruz, central Bolivia,
will have capacities of 40 MW,
14 MW and 54 MW, respectively.
The wind farms are collectively
known as the Santa Cruz wind project
and will help to accelerate Bolivia’s
journey towards phasing out fossil
fuels and reaching its goal of
sourcing 74 per cent of its electricity
from renewables by 2025.
The order was placed by ENDE, a
Bolivian state-owned electric utility.
The project is supported financially
by Danish development organisation,
Danida.
Senvion has secured a contract renewal
for the maintenance of Meridian
Energy’s 131.2 MW Mt Mercer
wind park in Australia.
The wind farm, located in the state
of Victoria, uses 64 of Senvion’s
MM92 turbines that have been generating
electricity since 2014. Following
the contract extension, the
German manufacturer will maintain
the machines for 15 years until 2035
through a local service base.
Sharp Energy Solutions has won contracts
to build two utility-scale solar
farms in Vietnam.
The company will build 49 MW
solar plants in Binh Thuan and Long
An Provinces. It said it has received
the orders from Gia Lai Hydropower
Joint Stock Company and TTC-Duc
Hue Long An Power Joint Stock
Company, respectively.
The solar farms fall under Vietnam’s
plans to reach 850 MW of solar
power generating capacity by
2020. They will receive a feed-in tariff
to support their operation.
ABB has won a multi-million-dollar
order from Energy Development Corporation
(EDC) for a major retrofit
project to upgrade six clean energy
geothermal units at two power plants
in the Philippines.
The new solution will increase operational
and maintenance efficiency
and assist management decisionmaking
by providing improved access
to better operational information.
It will also facilitate central
control and remote monitoring of the
power plants and steam fields from
one location.
The scope of the contract includes
the conversion of a mechanical electro
hydraulic governor to a digital
version and the replacement of the
existing low-pressure turbine hydraulic
equipment with a new a
high-pressure solution. ABB will
also provide performance calculation
and comprehensive cyber security
solutions to protect the customer’s
assets.
South Korean engineering company
Doosan Heavy Industries (DHI) has
signed a memorandum of understanding
(MoU) with Indonesian power
company PT Indo Raya Tenaga (IRT)
for the construction of two 1000 MW
ultra-supercritical coal fired power
plants in Cilegon, Indonesia.
The Jawa 9 & 10 power units will
cost a total of $1.68 billion to build,
with Doosan’s contract worth around
$1.33 billion. The two units are
scheduled to be built in 2023 and
will be operated by IRT, a joint venture
(JV) between PT Indonesia
Power and PT Barito Pacific.
Enercon has taken its first order in
Vietnam, securing contracts to supply
the equipment for 77 MW of wind
projects.
The German wind turbine manufacturer
will deliver its E103 EP2
machines for the 16-turbine Mui
Dinh and the 17-turbine Trung Ma,
projects. The turbines will be mounted
on tubular steel towers at a hub
height of 85 m.
The government of Bangladesh has
signed an agreement with Siemens for
the construction of a 3600 MW LNGfired
power plant.
The proposed plant will be built
adjacent to the 1320 MW Patuakhali
thermal power plant and is due to be
completed in two phases between
December 2021 and December
2022. It will comprise three 1200
MW units based on H-class advanced
gas turbines.
Though the project cost was not officially
revealed, Bangladesh Power
Development Board (BPDB) sources
confirmed that the amount is around
$3 billion.
Hydrogenics Corporation and its European
consortium partners are to supply
a 2.5 MW electrolyser-based energy
storage system to a 45 MW wind
farm in Norway.
The Varanger Krafts wind farm is
located in Raggovidda but its operation
is restricted by limitations on the
local transmission grid. The addition
of the energy storage system will enable
excess energy from the wind
farm to be used in the production of
hydrogen.
The energy storage system – known
as Haeolus – will be remotely controlled
and monitored due to environmental
conditions at the wind
farm.
Dutch offshore grid operator TenneT
has issued a call for competition for
the construction, transport and installation
of an offshore platform for a
Hollandse Kust offshore wind zone.
TenneT will develop at least 3500
MW of offshore connections by
2023, all with a standardised concept
of 700 MW per connection. The
platforms will connect offshore wind
farms to the onshore grid by HVAC
sea cables.
The platforms within one area will
be connected by a 66 kV cable. The
platforms are to carry high-voltage
switching and transformation equipment
as well as auxiliary facilities.
Dalkia Est and KPA Unicon have
signed a contract for the delivery of a
45 MW bubbling fluidised bed boiler
plant to Pomacle in France.
The boiler will be part of the
Cogecab power plant, which generates
energy for Européenne de Biomasse
HPCI’s black pellet plant. It
will use biofuel, including chips and
bark, recycled wood and cuttings
from vines.
The boiler plant will generate superheated
steam for electricity production
as well as hot water and
steam for the black pellet production
process and other nearby industrial
processes. The plant will be put into
operation in 2020.
Framatome has won a contract to upgrade
the instrumentation and control
systems on EDF’s 900 MWe reactor
fleet in France.
The project forms part of the overall
French nuclear reactor modernisation
programme designed to extend
the lifespan of the reactors
beyond 40 years. Framatome, as
prime contractor, will leverage its
own expertise and partner with other
Americas Asia-Pacific
Vestas secures 202 MW
order for Whitla
Meridian extends Senvion
service in Australia
Sharp to build Vietnam
solar plants
ABB lands Philippine
geothermal retrofit order
Doosan signs MoU for
IRT’s 2 GW coal plant
Enercon enters Vietnam
wind market
Siemens inks 3600 MW
Bangladesh contract
Hydrogen storage boosts
Norwegian wind farm
TenneT issues Dutch
offshore platform call
KPA Unicon signs boiler
contract
Avangrid places 144 MW
wind order
Bechtel to design and build
South Field CCGT
Vestas wins contract for
Bolivian wind farms
International
Europe
Framatome to upgrade
EDF reactor fleet controls
WindPlus orders MHI
Vestas floating wind units
KNPC invites solar bids
Egypt selects Siemens for
CCGT O&M
Fuji confirms 70 MW
geothermal order