Siemens sells first H-Class gas turbine in Poland

• 9 years ago (2014-12-03)
• Junior Isles

Europe 1061

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Siemens has been awarded a contract for its advanced H-Class gas turbine in Poland. It is the first time the company will build a turnkey combined cycle plant based on the machine in Central Europe, outside of Germany.

The 596 MW CCGT plant is being built for PKN Orlen, Eastern Europe’s largest mineral oil refinery company. The plant located in Płock, about 100 km northwest of the capital city of Warsaw, is designed to be very flexible. It can feed electricity into the national power grid, and also supply the refinery with electricity and process steam. Commissioning of the plant is scheduled for the end of 2017.

Since 2003, the Polish economy has grown significantly faster than average growth in other EU countries. Power demand in the country has increased from 140 590 GWh to 157 980 GWh, not least due to a rise in industrial production. New power plants are needed to meet this growing demand and replace old, inefficient plants.

The turnkey contract will see Siemens erect the combined cycle with a single-shaft configuration, and supply the main components: an SGT5-8000H gas turbine, the heat recovery steam generator, an SST5-5000 steam turbine with an SCon-2000PF condenser, an SGen5-3000W generator, the electrical systems and the SPPA-T3000 I&C system. Siemens will also be responsible for plant maintenance and service for a period of around 12 years.