The Belgian utility energy company, Electrabel, a member of the Tractabel Group (SUEZ), signed a contract with MHI, together with Mitsubishi Corporation (MC) and Mitsubishi Electric Corporation (MELCO), for the full turnkey construction of a 800 MW combined-cycle power plant, and the long term maintenance service for the main equipment of the plant. The plant will be built at the Castelnou/Teruel site located in the Zaragosa area of northeastern Spain. MHI will manufacture and supply the main components of two gas turbines and one steam turbine, while Melco will manufacture and supply three generators. Mitsubishi organized the consortium, as the consortium leader, with the Spanish engineering company, INITEC, a member of the Dragados group, which is in charge of the balance of plant and erection and civil works.This new plant is expected to go into operation in the forth quarter of 2005. For MHI, this combined -cycle plant is a successor to Endesa's Cristobal Colon 400MW combined- cycle power plant, for which the contract was signed in the last year. Although MHI, together with MC, has experience in delivery of critical components to the Tractabel Group (of which Electrabel is a member) for a nuclear power plant in Belgium, this project is the first contract between MHI and Electrabel for the supply of a combined-cycle power plant. |
