Alstom has signed a series of contracts with Dutch utility Essent to repower an existing power plant and build a new combined cycle in Maasbracht, south-east Netherlands.
Under the contracts, worth a combined EUR1 billion, Alstom will repower the Claus B plant and construct Claus C using its GT26 gas turbine technology. The project will result in a new combined cycle power plant with a total output of 1280 MW.
Alstom will design and build Claus C next to the existing power plant and provide the main components, including three GT26 gas turbines along with turbogenerators, heat recovery steam generators, a distributed control system and auxiliary equipment. It will retrofit the existing 640 MW steam turbine of Claus B and integrate it into the new combined cycle.
The repowering of Claus B will increase the total output of the plant from 640 MW to 1280 MW and reduce CO2 emissions by 40 per cent. The efficiency of the plant will increase from 39 per cent to over 58 per cent, says Alstom.
This is the second combined cycle power plant that Alstom has been awarded in the Netherlands this year. In January 2008, it won an order with Dutch utility Electrabel Nederland to build a 870 MW turnkey combined cycle power plant in Lelystad.
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