The Siemens Energy Sector has secured an order from the Netherlands for construction of a turnkey combined cycle power plant. Purchaser for the Rijnmond II power plant is the international independent power producer (IPP) InterGen headquartered in Burlington, USA. Following the start of commercial operation scheduled for mid-2010, Siemens will assume responsibility for plant services over a period of twelve years. The order including a long-term service agreement is worth a total of over EUR320 million.

Rijnmond II is the third order for a combined cycle power plant posted by Siemens since liberalization of the Dutch power market in 2000. Back in 2003, the company had already supplied key components for the Rijnmond I plant. In early 2007, Siemens secured the contract for the Sloecentrale combined cycle power plant in Vlissingen Ost. With an installed capacity of approximately 430 megawatts (MW) the Rijnmond II plant, which will be fired exclusively with natural gas, will supply eco-friendly power to more than a million Dutch households. Siemens will build the power plant at the Vondelingenplaat industrial and port facility, approximately three kilometers south of Rotterdam. The scope of supply encompasses an SGT5-4000F gas turbine, a water-cooled generator, a steam turbine, and the entire electrical and I&C equipment.

“The new high-efficiency combined cycle plant Rijnmond II impressively demonstrates how the competing targets of assured supply, operating economy and environmental compatibility can be harmonized,” said Michael Süss, CEO of the Siemens Energy Fossil Power Generation Division. “InterGen is thus setting a benchmark for sustainable, future-oriented power supply.”