Siemens Energy has announced that it has secured an order from Abu Dhabi for construction of the Shuweihat II combined-cycle power plant with integrated seawater desalination facility. The company will build the plant as a turnkey project together with the partners Doosan Heavy Industries and Samsung Engineering & Construction approximately 200km west of Abu Dhabi. After the scheduled start of operation in September 2011, the plant will generate 1500MW of electricity net and feed approximately 455,000cum of water daily into the local drinking water network. The project developer is GDF Suez. The end customer is the local energy provider Abu Dhabi Electricity & Water Authority (ADWEA). The value of the order for Siemens is more than EUR 350 million. Siemens scope of supply is mainly the power plant’s main components comprising four SGT5-4000F gas turbines, two SST5-6000 steam turbines, six generators, the electrical systems and I&C package SPPA-T3000 for total plant control. Doosan Heavy Industries will build the seawater desalination plant based on MSF technology. Samsung Engineering & Construction will be responsible for civil works.
