Wärtsilä delivers 40 MW engineered equipment for MCM Power to meet Myanmar’s increasing energy demand

Wärtsilä Corporation, Press release, 25 November 2019 at 11:30 AM E. Europe Standard Time

The technology group Wärtsilä has been awarded a 40 MW extended engineered equipment supply contract for a power plant in Shwe Taung, southern central part of Myanmar. The baseload power plant will feed the national grid and will help to alleviate the country’s ongoing energy shortage. The order by independent power producer (IPP) MCM Power with Wärtsilä was placed in September 2019, and the delivery is being expedited on a fast-track basis.

The plant will operate on four Wärtsilä 34SG engines fueled by natural gas to provide environmentally sound and affordable power to the region. The plant is expected to become operational in April 2020. The plant is planned to double the output to 80 MW at a future date.

Demand for electricity is rapidly increasing in Myanmar, and the country’s Ministry of Electricity and Energy (MOEE) has estimated that peak demand will rise to 4531 MW in 2020 from the 2018 demand of 3500 MW, an increase of nearly 24 percent. Additional power generation is, therefore, urgently needed and the plant will help MCM Power meet its power purchase agreement (PPA) obligations to supply electricity to the national grid.

Mr. U Aung Hlaing Oo, Managing Director of MCM Power, commented: “MCM is a co-owner in another power plant supplied by Wärtsilä in Myanmar, so we have very good experience with the efficiency of the Wärtsilä engines, as well as with the support and cooperation that the company has given us. We look forward to continuing this partnership. The levelised cost of energy provided by the Wärtsilä solution to Shwe Taung is very favourable and the new power plant helps us to meet the obligations towards MOEE.”

“Wärtsilä’s commitment to its customers is yet an other time illustrated with this order that we are delivering on a fast-track basis to meet an urgent situation. The plant will provide a much needed reliable power supply to the local area, and will also create employment opportunities because of this,” said Nicolas Leong, Sales Director, North & East Asia, Wärtsilä Energy Business.

Wärtsilä has earlier supplied a 145 MW power plant to Kyaukse township in the Mandalay region of Myanmar. This also was delivered and installed on a fast-track basis because of the country’s urgent need of additional generating capacity.

More information about energy solutions for IPPs.

Press release about another agreement to Myanmar:
Wärtsilä Operation and maintenance agreement will help Kyaukse power plant to meet its supply obligations to the national grid in Myanmar 

Articles in Wärtsilä’s stakeholder magazine Twentyfour7:
Myanmar- In new light
Energising Myanmar’s industrial zones 

For more information, please contact:

Hitendra Shetty
Business Development Manager, North & East Asia.
Wärtsilä Energy Business
Mob. + 65 9655 9477
Hitendra.Shetty@wartsila.com

Mirja-Maija Santala
Manager, Marketing & Communications
Wärtsilä Energy Business
Tel: +358 400 793 827
mirja-maija.santala@wartsila.com  

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