Siemens has been awarded a contract to supply two SGT6-8000H gas turbines and two generators to the 770 MW Empalme I combined cycle power plant in Sonora, Mexico. The customer is a consortium led by SENER which will act as turnkey EPC contractors for the project. The end customer and operator of the plant is the state owned utility Comisión Federal de Electricidad (CFE). The power station, which will become the first plant with H-class technology in commercial operation in Latin America, is scheduled for commercial operation in November 2017.
Siemens will supply the two gas turbines and two SGen-2000H generators, including technical services during erection and commissioning. The components will be produced in the Charlotte gas turbine manufacturing plant in North Carolina, USA.
Siemens has so far sold 48 H-class gas turbines and is now present in the world’s biggest energy markets – North and South America, Asia, Europe – and soon in Africa. Sixteen of these machines are already in successful commercial operation. The fleet has to date compiled more than 170 000 cumulative equivalent operating hours.
