Black & Veatch to expand Indralaya power plant in Indonesia

Overland Park-based engineering giant Black & Veatch has been awarded a contract to provide engineering, procurement and construction services for the expansion of the natural gas-fired Indralaya power plant in Indonesia. The increased plant capacity will provide needed power supplies to the South Sumatra power grid.

The Indralaya plant is owned by PT PLN, the Indonesia state electricity company. When the expanded plant goes into commercial operation in mid-2008, the plant's output will be increased from 84 megawatts to 124 megawatts of electricity. This is enough energy to power more than 160,000 homes.

Black & Veatch's work involves the addition of heat recovery steam generators and a steam turbine generator for conversion of two gas turbines to combined cycle operations. Combined cycle plants use both natural gas and steam turbine cycles to produce electricity with high efficiency and lower air emissions.