Germans pick French to build Britain's largest combined cycle power plant.

The report comes from a magazine based in Tulsa, Oklahoma, linked here, and states the following: Alstom SA has secured a 900 million-pound ($1.31 billion) contract to build the biggest combined-cycle power plant in the United Kingdom. The contract, awarded by U.K.-based RWE npower, a division of RWE Power AG (Essen, Germany), will see Alstom build the 2,000-megawatt (MW) gas-fired combined-cycle power station on the site of a former oil-powered power station at Pembroke Dock, Pembrokeshire, Wales. The plant is the latest in RWE npower's stated plans to create more efficient and environmentally friendly power plants. According to RWE npower, approximately 40 percent of the U.K. energy fleet was built before 1975 and will need replacement in the short to medium term. Like the earlier work at Staythorpe, British workers will no doubt be excluded although it will of course be the English, now held in a state of EU controlled peonage , who must pay for all this sophisticated construction produced in Germany and France, more quotes: RWE npower has already contracted Alstom to build its new 1,650-MW gas-fired combined-cycle power plant in Staythorpe, Nottingham, U.K. The new plant will include five Alstom GT26 turbines, each one to be installed in the KA26-1 single-shaft combined-cycle power plant power block. Each block will also house triple-pressure heat recovery steam generators (HRSG), a compact state-of-the-art reheat type STF30C steam turbine, a TOPGAS (hydrogen-cooled) generator and the "ALSPA" plant control system. Today, there are 85 of Alstom's GT24/GT26 units in commercial operation, with an accumulated operating time of more than 3 million hours. "This new project clearly demonstrates that Alstom's engineering expertise is crucial to the power industry in the U.K. and around the world," Alston Power president Philippe Joubert said. "This is the second contract signed by Alstom with RWE npower in less than two years, which underlines our customer's confidence in our engineering ability." The emphasis has been added by this blog editor. To think Britain led the world in such technology before 1972! All given away by the same maggot Members of Parliament who this week can only debate how best they can continue to enjoy their same tax free expenses in an ongoing manner that can somehow still be kept from the public, while unemployment mounts and our debts rocket higher with every passing second!