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LIONS & TIGERS & TURBINES, OH MY!
February 16, 2012
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| Charlotte-based SPX Corp announced this week that its Heat Transfer group has been awarded a contract to supply four advanced direct contact condensers (known as ADCCs in the trade) to what will eventually be the largest geothermal power plant ever constructed in Kenya, SPX?s Drew Ladau tells us. SPX's ADCCs will serve four Toshiba 70 MW steam turbines at a new plant being constructed in the Rift Valley of Kenya, which is (relatively) near Nairobi. As demand for electricity in East Africa's largest economy grows, Kenya anticipates that geothermal power will generate about 30% of the country's power by 2031, Drew says. Kenya plans to spend as much as $50B over the next 20 years in response to an anticipated 13.5% annual growth rate in electrical demand. |
