The three gas turbines for the Brunswick County Power Station will be partially manufactured and fully assembled at MPSA's Savannah Machinery Works in Georgia, - ready for scheduled plant completion in the summer of 2016. The gas and steam turbines were ordered through Mitsubishi Power Systems Americas, Inc. (MPSA), the business base for MHI's power system operations in the U.S.The M501GAC, a highly efficient and large-capacity - 60 Hz (hertz) - gas turbines, has been in over 75 power plant units worldwide, including more than 35 units in the North America, MHI said.
Under a separate long-term service agreement, MPSA will provide comprehensive turbine maintenance, repair and outage services, replacement parts supply and dedicated remote monitoring for the gas turbines.
Once operational, the Brunswick County Power Station gas turbine combined cycle (GTCC) pow-er plant will have over 1,300 megawatts (MW) of installed generation capacity.
For Tokyo-headquartered Mitsubishi Heavy, the order win to supply gas and steam turbines to Brunswick County Power Station marks the second supply contract between VEPCO and MHI's subsidiary, MPSA, within the last two years. The first supply contract was for the Warren County Power Station, which was awarded to MPSA in 2010.
VEPCO, a subsidiary of Dominion Resources, Inc., is a public utility that provides services in electricity generation, transmission and distribution. Dominion, one of the largest electricity producers and distributors in the U.S., owns and operates a power generation portfolio of about 28,000 MW, as wells as 11,000 miles of natural gas transmission pipelines and 6,300 miles of electric transmission lines.