Siemens Wins Hong Kong Order

Germany’s Siemens said January 20 it has received an order from Hong Kong’s Castle Peak Power Company (Capco) for delivery of a power block for a new 550-MW combined cycle unit (CCGT) at Capco’s Black Point Power Station. It is scheduled to be in operation before 2020 and marks the first power plant order for Siemens from Hong Kong in 20 years. It did not disclose the contract's value.

The order includes the delivery of the first Siemens H-class gas turbine to Greater China for the first time, and represents the 80th H-class gas turbine sold by Siemens worldwide. Siemens says they achieve a high-efficiency level above 60% and can handle short start-up times and rapid load changes.

Siemens is to supply its first H-Class turbine to China (Photo credit: Siemens)

Capco is a joint venture of state-owned China Southern Power Grid International and Hong Kong-listed CLP Power. 

ExxonMobil once was a large power generator in Hong Kong until it divested from the territory and sold its assets there for $1.8bn in 2013 to CLP Power, Hong Kong's largest power supplier.

Siemens has a long association with China; its company representative there in the 1930s, John Rabe, prevented the killing of many thousands of Chinese civilians during massacres by the invading Japanese army in Nanking and eventually set up a safe zone there to shelter 200,000 people.

Separately CLP Power and Capco announced January 20 a preliminary agreement whereby French firm will supply landfill gas from Hong Kong’s West New Territories. Capco will install units on the site to generate power from burning the landfill gas and then supply the power to CLP’s grid. It is part of Hong Kong government’s policy of promoting waste-to-energy and renewables.

Mark Smedley