Siemens celebrating three big deals
Siemens Power Generation (www.powergeneration.siemens.com) has won a $450 million contract to supply the turbines and O&M for the 350-MW Caithness Long Island Energy Center, a gas-fired, combined-cycle project. The plant, being developed by New York–based independent power producer Caithness Energy LLC, will provide power to the Long Island Power Authority (LIPA).
The Caithness project will be sited in Brookhaven, N.Y., in an existing industrial park. According to LIPA, it will be the first sizable power plant built on Long Island in more than 30 years. Nassau and Suffolk Counties have a combined population of 2.8 million.
"Siemens is playing an instrumental role in helping to meet the increasing energy demands of Long Island with its state-of-the-art gas turbine technology that will provide competitive, environmentally compatible energy to the residents of Brookhaven," said Randy Swirn, CEO of Siemens Power Generation Inc. His firm will be supplying a SGT6-5000F gas turbine (Figure 5) and an SST-900 RH steam turbine to the project. Siemens will also handle operations and maintenance of the plant for 17 years.
In other news out of Erlangen, Siemens Power Generation has been picked to supply 54 wind turbines for two offshore wind farms in Britain. The turbines, with a total capacity of 180 MW, will power the Lynn and Inner Dowsing projects near Lincolnshire, on the east coast. According to Siemens, this will be the second time that its 3.6-MW model will be deployed offshore.
The purchaser is Centrica, the parent of British Gas. Siemens will also perform O&M on the projects for five years. Siemens said the order is part of an overall investment of about $580 million.
Siemens Wind Power has two ongoing offshore projects: in Lillgrund, Sweden, and Burbo Banks, in Liverpool Bay on Britain's west coast (Figure 6). Both projects are scheduled for commissioning later this year. The Lynn and Inner Dowsing projects are scheduled to begin service by the end of 2008.
"Last year, we doubled our turnover, and our declared objective is still to make our wind power business grow faster than the market," said Andreas Nauen, CEO of Siemens' wind business. "Securing the two projects in Britain will bring us a good step forward in this respect. They will help us advance our leading position in the growth market of offshore wind farms."
A month earlier, Siemens announced that it had landed a $662 million deal to build a turnkey 840-MW combined-cycle plant in the UK. The company will supply two SGTF-4000F gas turbines, one SST6-5000 steam turbine, and three generators. The owner of the plant is Marchwood Power Ltd., a 50-50 joint venture of ESBI and Scottish & Southern Energy Plc. It will be located in the vicinity of Southhampton on England's south coast.
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