Alstom, Marubeni win Muara Tawar power plant construction contract

French firm Alstom announced on Wednesday it, in consortium with Japan?s Marubeni Corp., had won a contract worth about 160 million euros with the national electricity utility PT.PLN (Persero) for the construction of a combined cycle power plant in Indonesia. The power plant is located at Muara Tawar, 35 km from Jakarta, on the northern coast of Java.

The project consists of extending the existing power plant with a fifth unit. The consortium already built the combined cycle plant unit 1 and the gas turbine peaking plant unit 2 in 1995. New unit 5 will increase the total output of the plant by 235 MW from the current 1,800 MW. The plant will be operated with natural gas.

Under the terms of the contract, Alstom, as the consortium leader, will engineer, procure and commission a fully integrated power island, consisting of one GT13E2 gas turbine with one heat recovery steam generator, one COMAX steam turbine, two turbogenerators and the ALSPA control system. Alstom will engineer and manufacture the heat recovery steam generators at its local boiler facility in Surabaya, the capital of east Java. Marubeni Corporation will supply the balance of plant, high voltage switchyard, civil works and erection services. (alex)