After an approximately two-year construction period Siemens Energy handed over the new Timelkam combined cycle power plant in Austria to Energie AG Oberösterreich and the Swiss Groupe E. The district heating power plant has an installed capacity of 408 megawatts (MW) and will have an annual generating capacity of 2400 gigawatt-hours and supply 700,000 households with electricity.

With its advanced turbine technology the 408-megawatt plant will attain an efficiency of approximately 59 percent while at the same time producing low pollutant emissions, which, according to the company’s press release, will make it one of the most efficient and cleanest power plants not only in Austria but also worldwide.

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