Razdanskaya power plant is the biggest CHP plant in Armenia, its capacity is 1100 MW. The capacity of the fifth power unit being incompleted is 300 MW.
Under the agreement with ArmRusgasprom JSC Engineering and designing centre – New generation Ltd. will fulfill upgrading of the fifth power unit. The company will replace it with combined cycle power unit on the base of Alstom GT13E2 gas turbine with the capacity 179.9 MW and the existing steam boiler. As a result power unit capacity will come up to 431 MW. Assembling and installation will be fulfilled by HPCC-3 company (China). The power equipment will be operational at the end of 2010.

Reinforcing its commitment to support the development of Russia’s energy infrastructure, GE Energy has signed an agreement to build a new power technology center in the Kaluga Region that will initially provide services for GE power generation equipment installed in Russia and the Central Asian States. The agreement to construct the technology center was signed with the government of Kaluga Region, the Kaluga Region Development Corporation and the administration of Kaluga City.
The new Kaluga technology center will include an office building and industrial shop, and in its first phase handle the repair and service of GE heavy-duty gas turbine components. GE Energy anticipates that the technology center, once fully operational, will employ between 50 to 100 highly-skilled Russian engineers and service staff. Commissioning and startup is scheduled for the first quarter of 2011.

The British energy company, Blue-NG, has placed an order for a series of MAN B&W type 10L35MC-S diesel engines run on bio-liquids. The first four engines will be installed at sites in Beckton and Southall, Greater London, and are intended to supply green, low-CO2 power to the capital by 2010.
The two-stroke, low-speed engines will be built by MAN Diesel’s Polish licensee, H. Cegielski – Poznan S.A. Each engine develops 6,450 kW and has an ISO 3046 efficiency of 48.9 %.This high thermal efficiency is one of the main reasons for Blue-NG choosing MAN Diesel power. The MAN B&W engines’ performance is unrivalled in the 6MW diesel-power segment where normal efficiencies are usually in the range of 42-47 %.
The innovative plant, known as CHiP (Combined Heat and intelligent Power) will be the first of its kind in the world. The engines’ hightemperature waste heat will drive an organic Rankine cycle (ORC) turbine, while low-temperature waste heat will be used in a natural-gas, pressure reduction station where the heat will drive turbo expanders. The plant’s total net electrical efficiency will therefore peak at above 80 %.
The client, Blue-NG, is a joint venture between the National Grid, the UK’s gas and power-distribution company, and 2OC Ltd., a company well known in geothermal energy and natural-gas pressure-reduction station projects. The first MAN B&W 10L35MC-S engine is due for ex-works delivery in December 2009, with the remaining engines due to follow thereafter at three-month intervals.