A consortium headed by Wärtsilä and including Lotte Engineering & Construction, has been awarded a turnkey contract to build a 573 MW tri-fuel power plant in Jordan. The plant will be powered by a total of 38 Wärtsilä 50DF multi-fuel engines, totalling 573 MW. The plant will be fitted with a NOx (nitrogen oxide) control system for emissions abatement.
When completed, it will be the world’s largest tri-fuel power plant capable of utilizing natural gas, heavy fuel oil and light fuel oil as its main fuels. The plant will initially operate on heavy fuel oil but will switch to natural gas operation once the gas supply infrastructure is in place. The plant’s use of water would be close to zero. Electricity will be sold to the National Electric Power Company of Jordan (NEPCO) under a recently signed 25 year power purchase agreement.
The order has been placed by Amman Asia Electric Power, a special purpose independent power producer, in which Wärtsilä has a minority interest. The other owners of the company are KEPCO and Mitsubishi. The overall contract is valued at $552m, of which Wärtsilä’s share is $334m.
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