01 January 2012

SIEMENS has announced that the main components – including the heat recovery steam generators (HRSGs) – for the first two units of the Ras Al Khair combined cycle power plant (CCPP) in Saudi Arabia are now ready for immediate on-schedule delivery.

With a total of six units and a total installed capacity of 2,400 MW, the plant will generate power for an aluminium smelting plant and provide around one billion litres of drinking water a day for the capital city Riyadh with its five million inhabitants. The order is worth more than $1 billion to Siemens. The purchaser is a consortium comprising Al Arrab Contracting Company, Saudi Arabia, and the Chinese Sepco III Electric Power Construction Corporation.

The gas turbines were manufactured in the Siemens gas turbine plant in Berlin, Germany, with the manufacturing plant in Mülheim Ruhr supplying the steam turbines. The generators were produced in the Siemens facility in Charlotte, North Carolina in the US. Siemens is supplying a total of 12 gas turbines, five steam turbines, 17 generators and 10 HRSGs and the entire electrical and I&C equipment for the Ras Al Khair CCPP – formerly called Ras Az Zawr – and seawater desalination plant.

 Meanwhile, eight engineers of Saudi Electricity Company (SEC) have commenced training at Siemens, Germany, as part of an Expert Development Programme, with the aim of expanding their know-how in the fields of energy and grid technology.

Training will run for 52 weeks, starting first week of December.

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