Germany’s Siemens has been awarded a contract to upgrade two power generation units at the Al-Sadder power plant in Iraq.

As part of the overhaul of two existing Siemens gas turbines at the Al-Sadder plant in the Iraqi capital city of Baghdad, the German company will install its 3D turbine blades and vanes.

According to Siemens, the upgrade will generate enough power to supply an additional 100,000 homes to the 600,000 residences that are already powered by the plant.

The Al-Sadder upgrade is only the latest contract that Siemens has been awarded in Iraq this year. In August, MEED reported that Siemens had been awarded a deal to add 650MW of additional power generation capacity to Iraq’s grid by upgrading the existing Shatt al-Basra power plant. Siemens will upgrade the existing power plant to a combined-cycle facility as part of the upgrade.

In April, Siemens was awarded a contract to increase the capacity of the Rumaila power plant by 700MW.

Siemens will supply steam turbines to convert the existing 1,500MW power plant into a combined-cycle configured facility. The original plant was commissioned in 2013.