Under the contract, Siemens will be responsible for the supply of six turbines, each with a capacity of 53MW, as well as 12 turbines each having a generation capacity of 50.5MW.
Scope of work under the contract also includes technical field assistance for installing the units as well as provision for the long-term service for the turbines.
The power plants are being built by TPS in five new industrial parks including Eastern Seaboard Industrial Estate, Hemaraj Eastern Seaboard, Hi-Tech Industrial Estate, Hemaraj Rayong Industrial Land and Hemaraj Saraburi Industrial Land, for the Thai company Gulf.
Thailand is promoting distributed power production facilities through the Small Power Producer (SPP) program in a bid to ensure reliable power generation for industrial parks.
Siemens Power and Gas distributed generation business unit CEO Wolfgang Konrad said: "Success in the Small Power Producer program is a key element of our market share drive into the Asia Pacific markets for SGT-800."
Till date, Siemens has sold 70 SGT-800 units in Thailand with 20 of these units already in service.
Image: A Siemens-built SGT-800 industrial gas turbine. Photo: courtesy of Siemens AG.
