Siemens to upgrade steam power plant in Vietnam to combined cycle

• 4 years ago (2019-11-13)
• David Flin

Asia 846 Gas 371

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Siemens has announced that it will provide the equipment to upgrade the Hiep Phuoc 1 steam power plant in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, to a combined cycle plant. The project will increase the plant’s capacity by roughly 780MW to a total output of approximately 1200MW. The new plant will be fired by regasified LNG instead of the oil used to date. These changes will halve the CO2 emissions per kWh of electricity generated.

The scope of supply from Siemens includes three SGT5-4000F gas turbines, three generators, three HRSGs, related electrical equipment and the SPPA-T3000 control system. Once the power plant has been upgraded, the waste heat from the gas turbines will be used to generate steam, which will be used to drive the existing steam turbines and generators. Recommissioning of the upgraded plant is scheduled for the second half of 2022, and it will be able to supply 520MW through open-cycle operation by mid-2021.

Andreas Pistauer, Head of the Asia Pacific Region for Siemens Gas and Power, said: “We are proud to support Kiep Phuoc Power Company to improve the electricity supply situation with an environmentally friendly power plant solution. At the same time, the extension to the efficient combined cycle technology will diversify the plant’s operational functionality and thus increase the customer’s flexibility.”