RWE selects Técnicas Reunidas and General Electric for project

The plant will be able to use 50% natural gas and 50% hydrogen at the time of its commissioning, planned for 2030, and exclusively hydrogen later.

This facility is part of RWE’s ongoing effort to build such generation units in some of its existing sites to contribute to the German government’s plan to complete the decommissioning of all coal-fired power plants by 2030.

This CCGT is of the same type and capacity as the ones that RWE is planning for its Weisweiler and Gersteinwerk, for which a consortium also including Técnicas Reunidas was selected in 2023 and 2024, respectively.

According to the recently presented plans for the construction of a hydrogen infrastructure in Germany, the Voerde plant will be located close to a hydrogen transport pipeline in the future.

The approval planning services for the plant are already underway by the consortium formed by Técnicas Reunidas and GE Vernova.

This Voerde plant and the Weisweiler and Gersteinwerk plants are part of the programme launched by the German company aligned with the German government power plant strategy, which has announced that it will soon create a regulatory framework for tenders for hydrogen-compatible gas-fired power plants. RWE is currently preparing itself to participate in the tenders, and if awarded, it will begin construction of the three plants without delay.

The scope of Técnicas Reunidas’ works will include the design engineering of the project, the supply of equipment and the construction, commissioning, and start-up of the plant.

General Electric will supply the gas turbine and the steam turbine, their corresponding generators, the heat recovery boiler and other equipment.

Gabriel Ruiz, Commercial Director of the Power Business Unit at Técnicas Reunidas, stated: “The project is a result of the solid experience accumulated by our company in the development of flexible power generation facilities. Técnicas Reunidas is at the forefront of the use of new fuels for power generation, such as hydrogen, which are essential for the energy transition.

“It is a good example of the strong boost that we are currently giving to our decarbonisation activities and to support the maximum penetration of renewables in the energy matrixes of the markets we serve, as Germany. Furthermore, our efforts in this area are a demonstration of the trust put on us by the market, our clients as RWE, and the OEMs in the power market that are again trusting Técnicas Reunidas, this time General Electric, as their consortium partner, which substantially reinforced our vision and strategy for the power sector, as we presented on last 2nd of October Investor Day update”.

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