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Siemens to build combined cycle power plant in the Netherlands - Order worth over EUR320 million
Erlangen, Germany, February 04, 2008
The Siemens Energy Sector has secured an order from the Netherlands for construction of a turnkey combined cycle power plant. Purchaser for the Rijnmond II power plant is the international independent power producer (IPP) InterGen headquartered in Burlington, USA. Following the start of commercial operation scheduled for mid-2010, Siemens will assume responsibility for plant services over a period of twelve years. The order including a long-term service agreement is worth a total of over EUR320 million.
Rijnmond II is the third order for a combined cycle power plant posted by Siemens since liberalization of the Dutch power market in 2000. Back in 2003, the company had already supplied key components for the Rijnmond I plant. In early 2007, Siemens secured the contract for the Sloecentrale combined cycle power plant in Vlissingen Ost. With an installed capacity of approximately 430 megawatts (MW) the Rijnmond II plant, which will be fired exclusively with natural gas, will supply eco-friendly power to more than a million Dutch households. Siemens will build the power plant at the Vondelingenplaat industrial and port facility, approximately three kilometers south of Rotterdam. The scope of supply encompasses an SGT5-4000F gas turbine, a water-cooled generator, a steam turbine, and the entire electrical and I&C equipment.
“The new high-efficiency combined cycle plant Rijnmond II impressively demonstrates how the competing targets of assured supply, operating economy and environmental compatibility can be harmonized,” said Michael Süss, CEO of the Siemens Fossil Power Generation Division. “InterGen is thus setting a benchmark for sustainable, future-oriented power supply.”
The Siemens Energy Sector is the world’s leading supplier of a complete spectrum of products, services and solutions for the generation, transmission and distribution of power and for the extraction, conversion and transport of oil and gas. In fiscal 2007 (ended September 30, based on IFRS), the Energy Sector had revenues of approximately EUR20 billion and received new orders totaling around EUR28 billion and posted a profit of EUR1.8 billion. The Energy Sector had a work force of 73,500 at the beginning of fiscal 2008. Further information is available at: www.siemens.com/energy
All figures represent the sum of the nonconsolidated figures for the Power Generation and Power Transmission and Distribution Groups and for the Oil, Gas and Marine Solutions Division of the Industrial Solutions and Services Group.
Reference Number: EFP200802.007 e