Siemens Energy wins prize for Gas Turbine efficiency

Siemens Energy has won first prize in the “Green products and services” category of the Innovation Prize for Climate and Environment awarded by Germany’s Federal Environment Ministry and the Federation of German Industries (BDI), for designing and manufacturing the world’s most efficient natural gas turbine.

“Our new gas turbine shows that climate protection and fossil power generation are not mutually exclusive,” said Michael Süß, CEO of the Fossil Power Generation Division of Siemens’ Energy Sector. “This innovation will make it possible to continue supplying electrical energy at an affordable price in the future.” The SGT5-8000H gas turbine developed by Siemens in Irsching/Ingolstadt, Bavaria, is the largest and most powerful gas turbine in the world with an output of 370 megawatts (MW). After the test phase, this plant will be expanded into a highly efficient combined-cycle gas turbine power plant with an output of c. 570 MW. The turbine is over 13 meters long, five meters high and, at 444 tons, weighs more than the world’s largest passenger airplane. The plant will achieve a world record efficiency level of more than 60 per cent, which will benefit both the environment and the climate: annual CO₂ emissions from each new plant of this type will be about 700,000 tons below the average emission level for power generation worldwide – a reduction equal to the total emissions of 350,000 cars driven 15,000km a year.

An external view of the Irsching power plant by night

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