Bangkok--23 Aug--Siemens
Siemens Energy and the partner Marubeni Corporation have been awarded the construction contract (EPC) for two 800 megawatt combined cycle power plants; Chana Block 2 in Songkhla and Wangnoi Block 4 in Ayutthaya. The total investment volume amounts to approximately USD1 billion, with more than half for the Siemens scope of supply. The two associated long-term maintenance contracts for Siemens will be signed at a later date. The plants are scheduled to go online by 2014.
At the contract signing ceremony (left to right): Khun Somboon Arayaskul (Deputy Governor Development of EGAT), Khun Sutat Patmasiriwat (Governor of EGAT), Dr. Norkun Sitthipong, (Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Energy), Mr. Lothar Balling (head of gas turbine power plant solutions at the Energy Sector), Mr. Lothar Herrmann (CEO of Siemens ASEAN), and Mr. Masumi Kakinoki (Executive Chief Operating Officer, Power Project & Infrastructure Division of Marubeni Corporation)