Mitsubishi Power ships gas turbines to Fujairah plant

Mitsubishi Power, a power solutions brand of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI), has shipped a total of three M701JAC gas turbines to the Fujairah F3 power plant in the UAE from its Takasago Machinery Works in Hyogo Prefecture, the company said in a statement on Sunday.

“The plant will use an efficient combined cycle technology in the region and will be the largest natural gas fired gas turbine combined cycle (GTCC) facility in the UAE, playing a crucial role in the country’s power generation sector, while also contributing to the GCC’s power grid,” the statement said.

The shipment is a total of three units that was ordered in 2020. It includes the core facilities of the newly constructed plant, along with auxiliary machinery and accessory equipment.

“This project is the first in the Middle East to utilise our advanced JAC-Series gas turbines. We are pleased by supplying gas turbines that boast the world’s highest level of generating efficiency,” said Khalid Salem, president of Mitsubishi Power for the Middle East & North Africa and GTCC Business Unit Leader for EMEA.

The M701JAC is the world’s leading gas turbine with an efficiency greater than 64 percent and a reliability of 99.6 percent. It also has the lowest carbon emissions per unit of power when used in combined cycle.

The turbine operates on a mixture of up to 30 percent hydrogen and 70 percent natural gas; the turbines can be increased to 100 percent hydrogen in the future, the company said.

The company said that the generators will be the core facility for the natural gas-fired GTCC plant, owned and operated by Fujairah Power Company F3 LLC, a special purpose company (SPC) jointly owned by Abu Dhabi National Energy Company (TAQA) and Mubadala Investment Company, as well as Marubeni Corporation and Hokuriku Electric Power Company.

The plant is being built by the South Korean firm Samsung C&T Corporation. It will have a generation capacity of 2,400 megawatts (MW), the highest output ever for a gas- fired GTCC plant in the UAE.

Full commercial operation of the plant is scheduled to begin in 2023.