Wartsila, a leading provider of complete life-cycle marine and energy solutions and services, today said that it will supply a 70 MW smart power generation plant to Assam Power Generation Corporation Ltd (APGCL).
“The letter of award was issued in December 2015, and the power plant, delivered on a turn-key basis, is expected to be operational by March 2018,” the company said in a release.
The order includes seven Wartsila 34SG engines running on natural gas, it added.
APGCL plans to replace outdated gas turbine units with Wartsila technology. When gas is scarce, the plant needs to be run at part-load. Wartsila engines can do this while maintaining very high efficiency.
According to APGCL, this would not be possible with gas turbines. By absorbing the variations in the gas supply, Wartsila engines enable APGCL to produce more efficient power from the same amount of fuel without affecting the heat rate.
Initially, the power station will operate on an open cycle mode, but APGCL has the option of converting it to a combined cycle plant by installing waste heat recovery units.
The modularity of Wartsila power plants also allows the customer to easily expand the power plant with more engines to meet future demand.
