Contact signs contracts in $250 million peaking plant project
16 Apr 2008
Two hundred megawatts of highly efficient gas-fired peaking capacity to support increasing levels of renewable electricity generation have come a step closer, with Contact Energy executing contracts to purchase two fast-start gas turbine peaking units.
Contact Energy Chief Executive, David Baldwin, signed an agreement with General Electric (GE) to purchase two 100 megawatt LMS100 gas-fired peaking units. The units will be installed on the site of Contact’s currently disused Stratford power station and are expected to be in service before the winter of 2010.
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