Contract to upgrade power plant is Siemens' second major award in Iraq this year
Germany’s Siemens has been awarded a contract to add 650MW of additional power generation capacity to Iraq’s electricity grid.
Siemens will add 650MW of capacity by upgrading the existing Shatt al-Basra power plant, which currently has a power generation capacity of 1,250MW. 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 in Iraq 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.
The German firm was awarded the contract by China’s Sinohydro, which is the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contractor for the expansion. The plant is being developed by Erbil-based KAR group.
Both projects will be commissioned by 2020.
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