Siemens to develop Keadby 2 in UK

• 5 years ago (2018-06-06)
• David Flin

Europe 1061 Gas 370

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Siemens and the Scottish energy company SSE have announced that they will collaborate to build Keadby 2 in Lincolnshire, UK, which will be a highly-efficient gas-fired power plant, achieving an efficiency of 63 per cent. Siemens will provide a full turnkey solution. The plant will include the world’s first deployment of the 50 Hz version of Siemens’ SGT-9000HL gas turbine.

SSE will invest £350 million in construction of the 840 MW power plant, which will have an efficiency of 63 per cent. The contract also includes a 15-year long-term service contract, the first long-term programme for an HL-class gas turbine in Europe.

Construction at the site will begin in summer 2018, with commercial operation scheduled for 2022 as coal power plant closures come into effect.

Willi Meixner, CEO of the Siemens Power and Gas Division, said: “Siemens has a long-standing relationship with SSE and we have worked together to develop a competitive and innovative solution to enable our customer to progress with this important project. In June 2017, we announced we would validate the technologies of our new HL-class for the 60 Hz market at Duke Energy’s Lincoln County site in North Carolina in the USA. Now the cooperation with SSE for the 50 Hz version of our HL-class is another milestone.”