Siemens Energy has been awarded a contract from Mississippi Power Company, a subsidiary of Southern Company, to supply two SGT6-PAC 5000F gas turbine packages. These gas turbines will be installed in a coal-fired integrated gasification combined-cycle (IGCC) power plant using Southern Company’s proprietary TRIG™ gasification technology. Approximately 65 percent of CO2 emissions from the 582-Megawatt (MWe) Kemper County power plant are expected to be captured – a reduction of three million tons of CO2 per annum. The plant is expected to go into operation in mid 2014.

The Kemper County project, located in Liberty, Mississippi, is one of a very important group of IGCC power projects currently under development or construction in the U.S., which are expected to demonstrate that IGCC is an environmentally compatible coal or petcoke-based power generation option in a carbon constrained world.

Siemens’ scope of supply comprises two gas turbine packages, each consisting of a model SGT6-5000F gas turbine with a rated capacity of 232 MW, an air-cooled generator and Siemens’ innovative SPPA-T3000 power plant control system.