p. 17 | MARKET REPORT

Gas Turbines Market Developments

2023-27

Last year - 2022 - was a good year for gas turbine sales, with an increase in both units ordered as well as a significant increase in MWs sold, with a large number of “jumbo” unit sales driving the increase in overall MWs. Markets are now seeing the impact from the war and crisis in Ukraine, with lower demand for Russian natural gas causing a shift from new pipeline gas turbines to regions like North America, says the feedback from analysts from Gas Turbine World.

p. 19| GENSETS

GAS-FIRED GENERATORS

Five biogas generators were provided by Jereh Combined Energy Co., Ltd. to a biomass natural gas power plant based in China. These gensets have been installed at two cattle farms in China. The annual production capacity of the site’s biogas facility is over 100 million kWh, making this is the largest project of biogas power generation in the field of animal husbandry in China.

p. 20| GENSETS

PAKISTAN BEVERAGE COMPANY GETS GENSET

AKSA signed a deal with a major beverage company based in Pakistan to provide a 55MW power supply package. The deal consisted of the supply of 2 x 2250 kVA and 1 x 500 kVA AKSA Power Generation DG sets complete with a SCADA Monitoring System. ESL has supplied around 55 MW power to this customer with installation and commissioning of dozens of sets up to 2250 kVA with Cummins

p. 21 | GENSETS

DIESEL GENSETS FOR DESALINATION

Coelmo has supplied a generating set - model PDT408A2 Perkins engine 4008-TAG2A version with a Mecc Alte alternator model ECO43 VL4 A - to a desalination plant in Yanbu, Saudi Arabia, where it will provide backup power for a saltwater reverse osmosis plant. The reverse osmosis process was chosen by the client company because of its potential for effective energy recovery.

p. 22 | FUEL CELLS

BACKUP POWER FOR DATA CENTRE

A stationary fuel cell (FC) recently installed on the American Honda campus in Torrance, Calif. USA, is a first step toward future commercialisation of zero-emission backup power generation.

In the coming years, Honda says it will begin applying stationary FC power station technologies to Honda manufacturing facilities and data centres around the world. Honda is advancing hydrogen fuel cells to provide clean, safe and secure energy toward its global, reports the company.

P.24| BATTERY ENERGY STORAGE

THE FIRST GRIDCONNECTED BESS LINKS FOR NZ Saft, a subsidiary of TotalEnergies, has been awarded a major contract by Meridian Energy to construct New Zealand’s first large-scale grid-connected BESS.

Located at Ruakākā in the country’s North Island, the 100-megawatt (MW) BESS will improve the stability of the national grid, as intermittent renewable power generation increases in New Zealand.The BESS is the first stage of a project which will include the construction of a co-located 130 MW solar farm.

p. 25| COGENERATION

DISTRIBUTED ENERGY & GAS GENSETS

One of Turkey’s largest chicken meat producers covers a large part of its energy requirements with combined heat and power plants for generating electricity and heat. Iltekno, MWM’s distributor in Turkey, planned and supplied the plants with the right equipment. This study looks at one of Turkey’s largest chicken meat producers, the food company Beypiliç, located in the province of Bolu.

P.27| GENSETS

GENSETS IN THE RED SEA PROJECT

Zahid Tractor was selected by a major contractor to supply power solutions which deliver 32MW of prime power for The Red Sea Project, a nearly 11,000 square mile (28,000 sq km) fully-regenerative tourism destination currently under development along Saudi Arabia’s west coast. Zahid Tractor is has supplied 69 generator sets capable of running on both conventional diesel and B100 biodiesel.

P.28| UPS

HOW YOU CAN REDUCE UPS TOTAL COST OF OWNERSHIP BY RIGHTSIZING

David Bond, Chairman, Centiel UK, asks - dow do professional UPS users ensure they install a UPS that always provides them the highest level of power protection at the lowest possible cost throughout the UPS’s working life? The answer is either have a perfect vision of the future or install a scalable UPS.

P.26| HYDROGEN

HYDROGEN-GAS READY BACKUP POWER

Siemens Energy has supplied 4 x 2MW

Hydrogen-ready generators for an industrial client based in Ontario, a city in southwestern San Bernardino County in the U.S. state of California. SIEMEN’s manufacturing client in Ontario now operates a facility which can rely on electrical power from an 8 MW ‘carbon neutral’, peak mitigation, backup unit.

P.30| GENSETS

GENSET ENERGISES A COMPANY IN THE MOROCCO PAPER INDUSTRY

A model DP222LBF DOOSAN engine is the key power provider for a HDW-675 T5 three-phase soundproof generator set now at CMCPInternational Paper - one of the largest paper and cardboard production plants in Morocco. The genset with its STAMFORD alternator currently ensures a stable and reliable backup power source.