Steam turbine order

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MAN Turbo has announced orders totalling approximately €100m for steam turbines to be used at solar power plants and waste-to-energy facilities.

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group, based in Oberhausen, has announced orders totalling approximately €100m (£89m) for steam turbines to be used at solar power plants and waste-to-energy facilities.

Masdar Abu Dhabi Future Energy Company, based in Abu Dhabi, ordered a 125MW steam turbine from MAN Turbo for what will be the largest solar power plant in the world.

The Shams 1 plant is currently being built in Medinat Sayed, which is approximately 150km from Abu Dhabi.

For the order, MAN Turbo produced what is claimed to be the biggest steam turbine ever designed for generating solar heat.

Smaller versions of the turbine will be used for generating solar heat at a facility in Spain. The parabolic trough power plants Andasol 3 in Andalusia and Ibersol in the south-western section of the Iberian Peninsula will use two steam turbines with a capacity of 50MW each.

The Andasol 3 plant is scheduled for completion in 2011 and construction on the Ibersol plant will begin operating in the middle of this year.

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