Siemens said that the plant’s completion date is set for 2013. The value of the order for the consortium totals approximately E1 billion, with Siemens’s share amounting to around half of the total order value.
The hard coal-fired combined heat and power (CHP) plant with a gross rated capacity of over 800MW will reportedly be built at the existing Mainz-Wiesbaden (KMW) power plant site in Mainz.
The power plant’s licensing phase is already underway and construction is scheduled to commence between late 2008 and early 2009. Siemens’s scope of supply encompasses key components such as the steam turbine and generator, and the electrical and instrumentation and control systems, including the associated planning, installation and commissioning.
The working group comprising Austrian Energy & Environment (AE&E) and IHI will supply the tower boiler, the flue-gas desulfurization plant, and other supply and disposal systems. Within the working group, AE&E is also responsible for overall erection of the facilities.
Michael Suss, CEO of Siemens Energy’s fossil power generation division, said: Thanks to the advanced technology the power plant will attain a very high efficiency of 46% and will be one of Europe’s most modern plants. Beside electricity the cogeneration plant will also produce 200MW of district heat for as many as 40,000 households and approximately 30MW process steam for industrial plants in Mainz. We will thus achieve an optimum fuel efficiency of 60%.
