Chosen by the National Electric Power Company of Jordan (NEPCO) to build a grid-stabilising independent power plant to reduce the dependency on Egyptian gas from year 2014 onwards. AAEPC awarded Wärtsilä, together with South Korean Lotte Engineering & Construction, to build a 600 MW turnkey multi-fuel combustion engine power plant – the world’s largest and the first of its kind in the Middle East. The plant, IPP3 as it is called, has 38 Wärtsilä 50DF engines with a total capacity of 573 MW even in the extreme ambient conditions of Jordan (and 632 MW in ISO conditions). 22 engines provide baseload for the country’s national grid with a 60 % capacity factor, while the rest, 16 engines, serve peak load with an expected 40 % capacity factor.

Some of the tasks that we successfully completed during the construction: