The Siemens Power Generation Group (PG) is to build a turnkey biomass-fired power plant in a consortium with Kvaerner Power.

With Ground Breaking Ceremony schedule today (27th January) the plant will be erected in Lockerbie, Scotland, for EON UK, the British subsidiary of E.ON. With an electrical capacity of 44 megawatts (MW) it will be Britain’s largest biomass-fired station and supply electricity to as many as 70 000 households. The order is valued at over R100 million, with Siemens PG’s share amounting to more than R50 million.

In addition to overall coordination, engineering and project management the order also covers the supply of an SST-800 steam turbine and the civil works, erection, and the electrical and instrumentation and control equipment. Kvaerner Power will supply the power boiler, the fuel handling system and flue gas cleaning plant.

Following commissioning in late 2007, the biomass-fired power plant will provide approximately 70,000 households with a CO2-neutral supply of electricity. During the combustion of biomass precisely as much carbon dioxide is released as was removed from the atmosphere during plant growth. If the same amount of electricity were generated in a coal-fired power plant, over 150 000 tons of carbon dioxide would be released to the atmosphere. 

For more information, visit www.powergeneration.siemens.com