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age and monitor various operational and economic parameters.
The pilot is scheduled to be energized by the end of 2011, when
EKZ will take over the operations.
E.ON Inaugurates 436-MW Gas Plant in Slovakia. E.ON
on May 16 inaugurated a €400 million (US$587 million) modern
combined-cycle gas turbine plant at Malženice in Slovakia. The
436-MW plant features an efficiency of more than 59%, the Germany
firm claims, and it will be used mainly to compensate for
the fluctuating production of electricity from renewable energies.
The power station is E.ON's biggest single investment in Slovakia
so far.
Voith Wins Hydropower Equipment Supply Contracts in
China. Voith Hydro on May 13 said it won two contracts worth
a total €40 million from two Chinese utilities for equipment for
new hydropower projects. One contract involves the supply of
generators for two 340-MW units for the extension of Da Tang
YanTan Hydro Power Co.'s existing Yan Tan plant, located at the
Hongshui River in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. Voith
will also supply three Francis turbines (each with an output of
400 MW) to the Huanghe Hydro Power Development Co., which
is building the Yang Qu hydro power plant on the Yellow River.
China sources 22% of its power from hydropower, but the government
plans to increase existing capacities to 380 GW by 2020
from the current 210 GW.
MHI Starts Operation of Gas Turbine Combustor Plant in
Georgia. Mitsubishi Heavy Industries' (MHI's) new gas turbine
combustor manufacturing plant in Pooler, Ga., was completed on
May 12 and has commenced full-scale operation. MHI, which expects
demand for gas turbine combined-cycle (GTCC) systems to
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increase sharply in North America, is also building two other plants
at the company's Savannah Machinery Works site. One plant will
undertake gas and steam turbine rotor servicing, and the other
gas turbine assembly. The newly completed 13,000-square-meter
combustor plant has advanced production lines similar to those
at MHI's Takasago Machinery Works in Hyogo Prefecture in Japan,
the company's main gas turbine production facility, and it will undertake
fully integrated manufacturing, from welding assembly to
processing and coating. MHI said in a statement that it will promote
increased adoption of GTCC systems around the world, and it
intends to secure 30% of the world gas turbine market.
Siemens, EnBW Start Operation of First German Offshore
Wind Farm. Siemens Energy and utility EnBW (Energie BadenWürttemberg
AG) on May 2 put into operation Germany's first
commercial offshore wind farm. Located in the Baltic Sea, the
EnBW Baltic 1 wind farm consists of 21 Siemens wind turbines,
each with a capacity of 2.3 MW and a rotor diameter of 93 meters.
The 48.3-MW wind farm covers an area of roughly 7 square
km about 16 km north of the Darss/Zingst peninsula. Germany,
a pioneer in onshore wind power, plans to increase its offshore
wind capacity to between 20 GW and 25 GW by 2020.
Siemens is already developing a second offshore wind farm,
the EnBW Baltic 2 (formerly known as Kriegers Flak), with EnBW.
That project, which will have 80 wind turbines, each with a capacity
of 3.6 MW and a rotor diameter of 120 meters, is slated
for grid connection in 2013. In addition, Siemens has orders for
three other German offshore wind farms: Borkum Riffgat (108
MW), DanTysk (288 MW), and Borkum Riffgrund 1 (320 MW). ■
-Sonal Patel is POWER's senior writer.
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