Technology group Voith and the Spanish electrical energy era firm Iberdrola have signed a contract to modernize 5 pump generators for the Spanish hydroelectric energy vegetation Torrejón and Valdecañas positioned on the Tajo river.
For the Torrejón hydropower plant, Voith will provide two semi-axial pump generators, every with an output of 43MW. The scope of provide contains the runners, information vanes, turbine covers, shafts and bearings, in addition to hydraulic and digital governors. As a part of the modernisation, the plant will likely be transformed to variable-speed operation and as well as, the top will likely be elevated.
For the Valdecañas hydropower plant, Voith will provide three Deriaz pump generators with an output of 83MW every. The scope of provide for this undertaking contains the runners, components of the management techniques and the hydraulic governors.
In addition, each tasks comprise mannequin acceptance exams, set up supervision and full commissioning of the generators.
“By modernizing each hydropower vegetation, Voith is making an necessary contribution to a extra versatile use of hydropower vegetation within the European energy grid,” explains Quentin Seringe, gross sales and advertising and marketing supervisor at Voith Hydro.
“For the Valdecañas undertaking, we’re creating a Deriaz pump turbine that may be optimally used particularly for small to medium heads. The Torrejón undertaking additionally represents a particular modernization undertaking for Voith because of the velocity variability and the rise in head whereas sustaining the identical development circumstances,” provides Seringe.
Torrejon Plant, courtesy of Voith
The acceptance of the mannequin exams in mid-2021 will mark the following necessary milestone for each tasks. The first runners for the vegetation are to be delivered within the second half of 2022 and the final runners in mid-2024. The undertaking will finish with the commissioning of the vegetation scheduled for early 2025.
Due to the journey restrictions attributable to the COVID-19 pandemic, the whole contract negotiations have been carried out on-line from the house workplace by each events and concluded on the finish of July. This order strengthens the long-standing partnership between Voith and Iberdrola.