SINGAPORE -- A consortium comprising Mitsubishi Power, a power solutions brand of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI) and Jurong Engineering Limited (JEL) has been awarded an Engineering, Procurement, and Construction (EPC) contract by PacificLight Power Pte. Ltd. (PLP) to develop the largest, high efficiency combined cycle gas turbine (CCGT) facility in Singapore. The power plant will be the first CCGT unit in Singapore integrated with a large-scale battery energy storage system (BESS), enabling dynamic energy management to align electricity supply with grid demand.

Located on Jurong Island, Singapore, the 670MW facility, capable of powering more than 965,000 four-room flats, is scheduled to begin operations in 2029. It will have the ability to operate on 30% hydrogen and will be capable of shifting to run entirely on hydrogen in future.

The new CCGT power plant will deploy Mitsubishi Power's state-of-the-art M701JAC gas turbine with hydrogen co-firing potential, as the power sector works towards net zero carbon emissions. This gas turbine is recognized as the world's most efficient large-frame gas turbine model, with more than 64% combined cycle efficiency and proven reliability through three million operational hours.

PLP currently owns and operates an 830MW CCGT facility and a 100MW Fast Start Ancillary Services facility on Jurong Island. The 830MW CCGT facility is one of the most efficient and reliable combined cycle power plants currently operating in Singapore.

Mitsubishi Power has maintained a longstanding presence in Singapore, supporting the nation's energy infrastructure by providing advanced power generation systems for CCGT power plants since the early 2000s. Together with JEL, the consortium will have delivered two M701F gas turbines and a total of three M701JAC gas turbines, including those supplied for this latest project. This strong track record and proven collaboration in Singapore have been key contributors to securing the current contract.

The PLP CCGT project is a key step in advancing the nation's goal of achieving net zero emissions by 2050 and reflects a combined commitment by PLP, Mitsubishi Power and JEL to accelerate Singapore's transition toward net-zero.

Source: Mitsubishi Power
Associated URL: https://power.mhi.com/regions/apac/news/gro251023.html

LOS ANGELES -- Capstone Green Energy Holdings, Inc., and its subsidiaries and Microgrids 4 AI, Inc. (MG4AI), a developer of modular, AI-ready data center infrastructure, announced their 800-volt direct-current (VDC) microturbine plus compute engineered equipment package to power the next generation of AI infrastructure.

The 800 VDC innovation, announced at Data Center World Asia on October 9, positions Capstone and MG4AI at the forefront of the global transition envisioned and published by NVIDIA and accelerated by major data center infrastructure players to support megawatt-scale AI workloads and next-generation data center environments.

The Capstone 800 VDC natural gas microturbine represents a natural extension of its existing inverter-based power electronics technology. The 800 VDC is designed to directly interface with the forthcoming Kyber and Rubin Ultra platforms. The system will eliminate multiple AC/DC conversion stages, reduce copper mass by up to 45%, and improve overall power efficiency by as much as 5% compared to legacy 54V systems.

A Scalable Blueprint for Sovereign AI and Sustainable Power

Through this expanded collaboration, Capstone and MG4AI are integrating the 800 VDC microturbine with MG4AI’s modular, liquid-cooled data center kits to create turnkey, grid-independent ‘AI Power Blocks.’ Each AI Power Block will deliver power, liquid cooling, and compute as a unified, rapidly deployable system that can scale from edge deployments under 20 MW to AI giga-campuses exceeding 1 GW, supporting sovereign, enterprise, and commercial AI environments.

Source: Capstone Green Energy
Associated URL: https://www.capstonegreenenergy.com/news/press-releases/detail/4053/

SEOUL -- Doosan Enerbility has signed an agreement with a prominent U.S. technology company to provide two units of Doosan’s 380MW gas turbines. The two gas turbines are to be delivered by Doosan Enerbility by the end of next year.

By winning this contract, Doosan Enerbility secured its first overseas export deal for its gas turbines. In 2019, Doosan Enerbility had in collaboration with parties from the domestic industry, academia and research sectors succeeded in the local manufacturing of a large-scale gas turbine for power generation, making it the fifth in the world to successfully obtain its own gas turbine technology. A demonstration run of over 15,000 hours was then conducted at the Gimpo Combined Heat & Power Plant, through which the performance was verified. This was followed by the successive securing of supplier agreements for a total of eight gas turbines, which is leading to the expansion of the gas turbine business.

The surge in data centers’ electricity demand, driven by AI, played a key part in this recent contract win. As data centers around the world are facing difficulties in meeting the surging electricity demand with the existing power grid, they are all searching for a new source of energy. It was during this search that gas turbines started gaining attention, specifically due to the advantages it offered in terms of construction lead time, stability of electricity supply, rapid start-up and operating efficiency. Doosan Enerbility, which has its own suite of locally developed gas turbine models, is actively working to expand this area of business.

Doosan Enerbility’s Houston-based U.S. subsidiary, Doosan Turbomachinery Services (DTS), also contributed to the recent contract win. In the case of gas turbines, maintenance of the turbines is just as important as the initial delivery of the product. DTS will be handling the maintenance services for the gas turbines that are to be supplied by Doosan Enerbility to the U.S. market.

Source: Doosan Enerbility
Associated URL: https://www.doosan.com/en/media-center/press-release_view?id=20172736&page=0&