The
Siemens Power Generation Group(PG) has secured orders in
and
for the turnkey construction of two combined cycle power plants with a total value of approximately €600 million.
The Norwegian energy corporation Statkraft is purchaser of the Hürth-Knapsack power plant, and the contract for the plant at Kårstø in
Siemens will build an 800-megawatt combined cycle power plant for Statkraft in the Knapsack chemical industrial park near Cologne-Hürth in
Siemens PG also received an order for a turnkey 420-megawatt combined cycle plant from Naturkraft for the Kårstø project located north of
For this plant Siemens will supply the gas turbine, the steam turbine and the generator. The scope of services also includes a maintenance agreement over a term of six years.
The plant will be
’s first commercial gas-fired power plant. Siemens claims that due to its advanced catalyst technology, the plant will set new environmental compatibility benchmarks in
. Plant commissioning is scheduled for the fall of 2007.
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