The company has been chosen to provide eBoP solution for 150MW Hassi R'Mel solar hybrid power plant in Algeria.

Spain’s UTE Aberer Hassi R’Mel Construction has allotted a contract worth $14 million to ABB to provide a complete electrical balance of plant (eBoP) solution for a 150-megawatt (MW) integrated, combined-cycle solar power plant under construction in Algeria.

The plant, which will be set up at the Hassi R’Mel natural gas field in northern Algeria, will have two 40 MW gas turbines, one 80-MW steam turbine and two parabolic trough solar fields with a generating capacity of 25 MW.

The project is expected to be completed by August 2010.

In this hybrid project, ABB’s project scope includes design, engineering, supply, erection and commissioning of the complete electrical balance of plant. The main equipment to be supplied includes medium- and low-voltage switchgear, auxiliary transformers, generator circuit breakers, isolated bus-ducts and emergency diesel generators.

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