ŠKODA POWER put a turbine into operation in Riga CCPP

ŠKODA turbine successfully passed test operation in the new power plant with a combined cycle in the Latvian capital. The supplies for the gas-steam cycle of the Riga power plant have been provided, besides ŠKODA POWER, by General Electric, which supplied its state-of-the-art combustion turbine for the given project. The power plant shall provide heat to the Latvian capital Riga.

In 2006, ŠKODA POWER succeeded in the international tender for construction of a new power plant unit with a combined gas-steam cycle with the total output of 410 MW - 260 MW gas turbine GE plus steam turbine ŠKODA 150 MW. The tender announced by Latvian power company Latvenergo was won by Spanish company IBERDROI-A INGENIERÍA Y CONSTRUCCIÓN with which ŠKODA POWER offered a machine room with a condensing extraction turbine 150 MW including steam reheating and extraction of heat for heating with the total output of 230 heat MW. By winning the order, ŠKODA POWER accomplished its long-term efforts to cooperate with this international engineering and construction company. IBERDROLA INGENIERÍA Y CONSTRUCCIÓN is dominant in the Iberian Peninsula and is expanding to central and eastern Europe.

Moreover ŠKODA POWER made a contract in 2007 for long-term servicing of the machine room of the Riga I power plant. This fifteen-year contract includes machine room maintenance, supplies of spare parts, technical support, two overhauls and availability guarantees. The offer for long-term servicing was a part of the mentioned international tender.

Currently ŠKODA POWER a.s. is trying to take part in the project of the power plant Riga II. The tender for the power plant of the same scope as Riga I is participated by Spanish lberingo and Turkish Gama. ŠKODA POWER offers through both EPC contractors a 150 MW steam turbine, generator, condenser and heating water heater.