Hybrid plant on the Faroe Islands

15 May 2018



MAN Diesel & Turbo is to supply four of its 9L51/60 gensets to the remote Faroe Islands, an autonomous region of Denmark in the North Atlantic with around 50 000 inhabitants.


MAN Diesel & Turbo is to supply four of its 9L51/60 gensets to the remote Faroe Islands, an autonomous region of Denmark in the North Atlantic with around 50 000 inhabitants.

The four-stroke engines being supplied will expand the existing Sund power plant near the capital Tórshavn. They will run on heavy fuel oil to generate both electrical power and heat for the district heating network on the island. The project places emphasis on restricting the impact on the environment by virtue of its measures to significantly reducethe level of NOx with the installation of a selective catalytic reduction system.

The end customer and operator of the power plant is the local energy provider Elfelagi SEV, the main power producer on the archipelago. In total, SEV operates 13 thermal and hydroelectric power plants on the islands as well as a number of wind farms. Since 2012, all plants and many industrial-scale consumers have been linked to form a virtual power plant that automatically balances the energy demand and supply on the islands.

The MAN engines will be used as a back-up for renewable electricity generation: it is the residual heat from the gesets that will be sent to the district heating system. The EPC role for the project is being undertaken by the Danish plant engineering supplier BWSC.

Wayne Jones, chief sales officer at MAN Diesel & Turbo, said: “As remote as the Faroe Islands may be, the set-up of the world’s first virtual power plant in 2012 was an energy industry milestone. When it came to coupling wind turbines and engines in hybrid power plants, MAN became a pioneer. We built our first plant of this kind way back in 2009. Since then, the expansion of renewable energy sources has progressed worldwide and we consider hybrid power plants to be a central growth technology on the way to a world of climate-neutral energy production.”

With a total electrical output of 37 MW, Sund is the largest of the three thermal power plants on the Faroe Islands. The engines now ordered represent its third expansion. 

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