Chania Power Station

Chania Power Station hereafter refers to two gas turbine units with a total capacity of about 120 MW located in the neighbourhood of the town of Chania in Crete island, Greece.

Owner of the power station is the Public Power Corporation (PPC).

History

On 1995 PPC awarded the contract for the supply and installation of two gas turbine units of a capacity of 59 MW each to Ansaldo Energia a Finmeccanica Company in Italy. The contract was supplemented following works stoppage due to local population impediments which allowed the erection works to start only on April 1997 so delaying the beginning of the execution of the project at site.

Main steps of the contract execution were:

- First synchronization – March 1998

- First unit commencement of commercial operation - May 1998

- Second unit commencement of commercial operation - August 1998.

Contract and project management

The contract was signed on August 1, 1995 by Adrianos Papathanassiou PPC general manager and Paolo Giallombardo Ansaldo Energia sales director.

For the contract performance phase, the management of the project was provided by the Ansaldo Energia project team composed by Roberto Pisani as project manager and Leonardo Cordone as project engineer. At the plant Sandro Scaltriti and Angelo Malara were appointed as site and start-up managers interfacing with Nicolas Roussos the plant manager of PPC. Project activities were locally supported by Vincenzo Gaiaschi and Konstantinos Keramidas at Ansaldo Energia Branch of Athens led by Giorgio Mazzoni.

Scope of supply

Object of the contract between PPC and Ansaldo Energia was the design, engineering, manufacturing, supply, tests at the factories, transport to the job site and storage, assembly, erection, tests and setting in operation of all the equipment and material and delivery of the project to PPC including the design and construction of the necessary civil works.

The project included the following main equipment, systems and works:

- Two gas turbines V.64.3 type and relevant auxiliary systems

- Gear block

- Air intake system

- Fuel oil system

- Exhaust silencer

- Stack

- Inlet air and exhaust gas ductings

- Power house

- Lifting equipment

- Fire fighting, compressed air and HVAC systems

- Generators and accessories

- Step up transformers

- Generator bus ducts and circuit breakers

- GT starting and excitation systems

- Switchgears (6,6 kV and 0,4 kV)

- DC battery system

- Lighting, grounding and lightning systems

- MV, LV and I&C cables

- I&C

- Civil works.

Greek companies as Triton and Rodax participated in the construction of the unit as subcontractors.

References

1. Plugging into the Sun-Kickstarting the Solar Age In Crete [1]

2. Ansaldo Energia power generation news 2003 [2]

3. Public Power Corporation of Greece Public Power Corporation

4. Finmeccanica al salone Defendory 2008: collaborazione con la Grecia [3]

5. 2007: Service business delivers excellent results [4]