Finnish Firm Awarded Contract for $77 Million Dual-Fuel Power Plant in Trinidad and Tobago

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Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--The Trinidad and Tobago Electricity Commission (T&TEC), the national electric company of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, awarded a $77 million contract in November to Wartsila (Helsinki, Finland) for a dual-fuel power plant that runs on natural gas and light fuel oil. The 64-megawatt (MW) base-load power plant will be the first natural-gas-reciprocating engine plant of its type in the region. The Wartsila plant will be at the Cove Industrial Estate on the island of Tobago. The power plant will supply electricity to Tobago and transmit power to the heavily industrialized island of Trinidad, passing through two 33-kilovolt (kV) underwater cables.

T&TEC is the only supplier of electricity in Trinidad and Tobago. The company was established in 1946 and provides electricity to almost 400,000 residential, commercial and industrial customers.

The Wartsila power plant will be commissioned in September 2009, and it will also operate the Cove plant for an initial period of five years under a full operations and maintenance agreement. The facility will be equipped with four Wartsila 18V50DF dual-fuel generator sets and a double-buss-bar 66-kV substation connected to the T&TEC electrical grid, producing more than 64 MW on natural gas and 67 MW on the backup fuel, light fuel oil.

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