Jul 5 2006
Rolls-Royce has signed a contract for two RB211-6761 Dry Low Emission (DLE) gas turbine generating sets to power a Combined Cycle Heat and Power plant (CHP) that will provide electricity and heating to a new industrial park in the town of Levice, Slovakia. The value of the contract is more than US$20 million.
Delivery is scheduled for the end of this year, with the cogeneration plant expected to be operational in the first quarter of 2007.
The project, developed by ADATO s.r.o., an engineering project management company based in Levice, with financing by the SLOVINTERGRA Group, will provide around 80,000kWe to the industrial park and the public electricity grid.
Twoheat recovery steam generators designed by ADATO will provide 50 tonnes per hour of high pressure and low pressure steam.
ADATO’s order brings the number of RB211 gas turbines operating in Slovakia to seven. The country’s gas company, SPP, operates five RB211s at compressor stations that pump gas along a pipeline running from Ukraine to Germany.
Tom Curley, President of the company’s energy business said: "We are extremely pleased to have been selected by the EPC contractor, ADATO, to provide the power generation packages for the new Levice industrial park.
“We hope that this signifies the first of many such installations in Slovakia, and the Central European region co-generation market in general.”
Levice industrial park has attracted a number of foreign investors, including companies from Austria, India, Germany, the Netherlands and Sweden. The park could create several hundred jobs in the town of Levice, which has a population of approximately 37,000 people.
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