Siemens has won an order to build a 1.5 GW electricity/desalination plant inthe Gulf
The Power Generation Group of Siemens has won an order worth around r1 billion from the UAE for turnkey construction of the proposed 1500 MW Shuweihat power station. Purchaser and operator of the combined cycle plant, the largest private power plant project in the Gulf, is a consortium of the state owned Abu Dhabi Water and Electricity Authority, independent power producers CMS (of the USA) and International Power of the UK.
The project, which includes a power plant linked to a seawater desalination facility, was initiated by ADWEA and is Siemens’ largest ever order in the Gulf, notwithstanding the fact that Siemens and the fossil plant division of Westinghouse, acquired in 1998, have between them supplied around 30 000 MW of power capacity in the region. The contract includes a long term maintenance agreement and the high voltage switchgear supply contract.
The Shuweihat complex will be located 250 km west of Abu Dhabi and is intended in the long term to be a power/desalination plant capable of producing 300 million gallons/day of fresh water. This contract represents the first phase. Siemens is to supply five gas and two steam turbines, seven generators and all the ancillary systems.
l Siemens has signed an 870-million-baht deal with the Provincial Electricity Authority of Thailand to construct and install eleven 115 kV substations. The project is the first phase of the sixth stage of the PEA’s transmission system and substation development programme, and is financed by the Japan Bank for International Co-operation (JBIC). Construction will be completed in 18 months.
The first 10 substations will be of the air-insulated switchgear outdoor type and the last one would be a gas-insulated indoor unit.
Siemens will also install a “teleprotection” system, a high-voltage equipment protection system operated remotely via fibre-optic cable. The company has already constructed and installed 15 PEA substations, at a total cost of 1.1 billion baht, during the third-stage of the project.