Under the terms of the contract, worth over EUR 55M in total, alstom will supply and install the entire unit, consisting of one 207MW Francis reversible pump turbine, a 244 MVA motor-generator, butterfly valve and other hydromechanical equipment, and mechanical and electrical balance of plant.
Salamonde’s existing units, for which Alstom supplied part of the hydromechanical equipment and carried out a retrofit of the generators during the 1980s, was installed in the 1950s and has an output of 2 x 21MW. The commissioning of unit 3 in 2015 will bring total power output of the Salamonde dam up to 250MW.
