ABB
has been selected by
E.ONto design, manufacture, supply and commission the replacement steam turbine supervisory system for its 1,420MW Connah’s Quay power station at Deeside, north
. The new system will be based on ABB’s Harmony platform for process control and automation.
Connah's Quay is a combined cycle gas turbine power station that uses natural gas piped ashore from
E.ON
ABB's remit includes manufacture and installation of all panels, wiring and equipment, and commissioning of the system from field devices through to the distributed control system.
ABB is carrying out the project in two phases timed to coincide with planned outages at Connah’s Quay. The control systems for two modules will be replaced in 2006, and the remaining two will be replaced in 2007.
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