The company ABB
has won an order worth over $160 million from Eskom, South Africa's national
electricity provider, to supply control systems,software and instrumentation
for the 4,800 megawatt (MW) Kusile coal-fired power station under construction
near Witbank in the country’s north east.
Kusile will be the
fourth largest coal-fired power station in the world and will help boost South
Africa’s capacity. It’s among a new generation of high-pressure,
high-temperature power installations, also known as supercritical, whose
efficiency surpasses that of conventional coal-fired power plants, producing
lower emissions and reducing fuel costs.
Kusile will be the
first in Africa to use wet flue gas desulphurization technology in all its
plant boilers. Eskom, which generates more than 90 percent of its electricity
from coal-fired stations, is installing state-of-the-art clean coal technology
in one of its largest plants to help ensure a long term, reliable source of
baseload electricity for the region.
The company is supplying a complete control and
instrumentation solution for the entire plant, including boiler protection and
plant simulator, engineering, installation, commissioning, optimization and
training. ABB is one of the most important company that providing automation
and software for advanced clean coal power plants, including supercritical
installations like Kusile.
The project further
strengthens ABB’s leading position as a provider of advanced automation and
software solutions to electricity utilities globally and in the Southern
African region, with systems already installed in South Africa, Lesotho,
Malawi, Botswana, Zambia, Zimbabwe and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
“ABB’s energy
efficient technology solutions will help boost power supplies and bring
reliable power supply to consumers” said Claudio Facchin, president of Power
Systems division. ”We are pleased to
continue with our contribution to the development of South Africa’s power
infrastructure through our power, automation and software capabilities.”
Power plant automation and software ensure more
effective plant operations, providing greater awareness and enabling faster
response and better decisions that improve plant availability and efficiency.
Source: ABB
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