Siemens and ST Engineering to building floating power plant for Dominican Republic

• 5 years ago (2018-12-04)
• David Flin

Gas 370 Latin America 75

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Siemens and the marine arm of ST Engineering in Singapore have received an order for a SCC-800 2x1C SeaFloat barge-mounted power plant from Seaboard Corporation subsidiary Transcontinental Capital Corporation (Bermuda), an IPP with operation in Dominican Republic. The project Estrella del Mar III in the Dominican Republic will provide the customer with a 145 MW generation facility.

Siemens is team leader for the project, and will provide a 145 MW combined cycle power plant. ST Engineering will be responsible for the engineering design, procurement, and construction of the floating power barge, the balance of plant, and the installation of the floating power plant.

Siemens will also deliver its hybrid SIESTART solution, combining a combined cycle power plant with a battery energy storage system. Estrella del Mar III is scheduled to start operation in Santo Domingo in Spring 2021.

Seaboard Estrella del Mar III will be installed at the customer’s location in the country’s capital city Santo Domingo. Site constraints with limited free land resulted in the customer selecting a SCC-800 2x1 SeaFloat concept with two SGT-800 gas turbines and one SST-600 steam turbine. Fluence Energy, a company of Siemens and AES, is supplying a SIESTART solution, a 5 MW/10 MWh battery energy storage system to be integrated as part of the power plant for frequency regulation control.