Turkish company DSI has awarded Russia’s Power Machines a contract to provide equipment to the Kigi hydropower plant being built in the province of Elazig, Turkey.
Under the terms of the deal, Power Machines is to produce and deliver on a turn-key basis the electrical and mechanical equipment for the plant, including three 46.6MW hydraulic turbines with pre-turbine gate valves, three generators of the same capacity, all the electrical and mechanical equipment of the turbine hall and switchgear.
Commissioning of the units is expected to be complete in 2016.
Power machines has worked in the Turkish hydro market previously. In 2008 it implemented a project to provide equipment for the Torul project and supervise its installation. The scope of supply comprised two 52.8MW hydropower units fitted out with radial-flow hydraulic turbines with pre-turbine gate valves, two hydrogenerators and excitation systems.
