Alstom : Alstom to Construct the First GT26-Based Combined-Cycle Powerplant in the Netherlands

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Alstom (Paris:ALO) has won an order worth over €400 million with Dutch utility company Electrabel Nederland, to build a 870 MW turnkey combined cycle power plant in Lelystad, located in the centre of the Netherlands. Flevocentrale will be the first GT26-based combined-cycle power plant built by Alstom in the country.

Alstom will design and build a fully integrated plant and provide the main power plant components including two GT26 gas turbines and the associated equipment such as steam turbines, turbogenerators and heat recovery steam generators.

Owing to Alstom's state-of-the-art advanced cycle gas turbine technology, the plant can maintain a high level of operational flexibility and efficiency.

Alstom has been a key player in the Dutch power generation market for a long time, with 60% of the electricity generated in The Netherlands being produced by Alstom equipment.

Maus van Loon, Chief Executive Officer, Electrabel Nederland, said: ?Electrabel in The Netherlands is committed to a more sustainable energy supply, through effectively creating a balance between the preconditions: 'clean, affordable and reliable'. Building this new gas-powered power plant near Lelystad, and replacing a less energy efficient one, is part of that effort. And we are proud to co-operate with Alstom as a leading energy technology supplier in the world?.

Worldwide, 81 Alstom GT24/GT26 gas turbines are in commercial operation and the fleet has already accumulated over 2.5 million firing hours.

Philippe Joubert, Alstom's Executive Vice-President and President, Power Systems Sector, said: ?The signature of this new contract is proof of Electrabel's confidence in Alstom's products and plant integrator capabilities. In addition, the existing service organisation of Alstom in the Netherlands will provide all the technical support and required know-how to keep the plant in operation in the most efficient way, and simultaneously create jobs in several local companies?.

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