Siemens powers new city section of Moscow

The Moscow City Power Plant II has started commercial operation and will from now on generate electricity and heat to an entirely new residential and commercial section of the Russian Capital. The plant is fired by two SGT-800 industrial gas turbines and one SST-700 industrial steam turbine. These are the first of a series of SGT-800 type gas turbines to be put in operation in the Moscow area in the near future. Since 2001 Siemens has sold 13 SGT-800 gas turbines to the Moscow area.

Operator of the Moscow City Power Plant II is JSC Technopromexport, who built the Moscow City Power Plant under a BOO (build-own-operate) scheme. In addition to the gas turbines and the steam turbine, Siemens also delivered the control system. The combined cycle power plant will supply electricity to Moscow City with a capacity of 121 megawatts (MW) and district heat with 92 megajoules per second (MJ/s).

The new city section, known as the Moscow International Business Center (MIBC) or, more familiarly, Moscow City, is a burgeoning city within a city, which combines everything from skyscraper office blocks to restaurants, retail outlets, parks, hotels and residences for half a million inhabitants. The area is accessible by road and underground transport from the rest of Moscow, and can now also boast of its own power supply.