Alstom to Upgrade Britain’s Biggest Gas Plants with Latest MXL2 Technology
October 28 2013 - 7:07AM
Business Wire
Regulatory News:
Alstom (Paris:ALO) has agreed plans for a major upgrade with RWE
Generation to implement its high performance MXL2 upgrade package
on all nine gas turbines at the 2,200 MW Pembroke and 1,650 MW
Staythorpe facilities – Britain’s two biggest gas-fired combined
cycle power plants.
The five GT26 gas turbines at Pembroke and four at Staythorpe
will each be retrofitted with the multi-mode MXL2 upgrade, which
offers increased performance, substantial improvements to
operational efficiency and enhances availability through increased
maintenance intervals.
This agreement also includes a comprehensive maintenance
programme for the RWE Generation GT26 fleet across Europe;
including Staythorpe and Pembroke in the UK, and Claus-Maasbracht
in the Netherlands.
“The MXL2 upgrade package has been designed to help the customer
get even more value from his machines with reduced maintenance
hours over the life of the plant– and that is an offer which is
difficult to resist”, says Michael Rechsteiner, Senior Vice
President for Alstom’s Thermal Services business.
The upgrading of nine advanced class gas turbines at some of the
UK’s most important power plants is another milestone for Alstom’s
MXL2 product portfolio. Since its first implementation on a GT26
gas turbine at Spanish plant Castejon in 2009, the upgrade has been
successfully demonstrated on the conventional class GT13E2 gas
turbine, at South Humber Bank in Lincolnshire, UK in early 2012,
and then on the GT24 gas turbine for the 60Hz market at Bayside
plant in Canada in November of the same year.
With the MXL2, Alstom offers performance improvements usually
associated with completely new machines – but balanced with the
security that comes from fully tested technology, backed up by many
thousands of operating hours.
About AlstomAlstom is a global leader in the world of
power generation, power transmission and rail infrastructure and
sets the benchmark for innovative and environmentally friendly
technologies. Alstom builds the fastest train and the highest
capacity automated metro in the world, provides turnkey integrated
power plant solutions and associated services for a wide variety of
energy sources, including hydro, nuclear, gas, coal and wind, and
it offers a wide range of solutions for power transmission, with a
focus on smart grids. The Group employs 93,000 people in around 100
countries. It had sales of over €20 billion and booked close to €24
billion in orders in 2012/13.
About RWE Generation SERWE Generation SE is the
generation company in the RWE Group. The company pools the
generation entities and engineering expertise of RWE Power in
Germany, RWE Essent in the Netherlands, and RWE Generation in the
UK. The company has around 17,000 employees and nearly 40 GW of
power generation capacity.
AlstomPress ContactsVirginie Hourdin, Isabelle
Tourancheau - Tel.: +33 1 41 49 21 36 / 39
95virginie.hourdin-bremond@chq.alstom.com /
isabelle.tourancheau@chq.alstom.comorSapna Lalwani (Alstom Thermal
Power)Tel.: +41 56 556 33 42 |
sapna.lalwani@power.alstom.comorJonathan Smith (UK Media
Relations)Tel +44 7801775650|
jonathan.smith@chq.alstom.comorInvestor RelationsDelphine
Brault, Anouch Mkhitarian – Tel. +33 1 41 49 26 42/25
13delphine.brault@chq.alstom.com,
anouch.mkhitarian@chq.alstom.comorWebsite www.alstom.com
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