Commercial operations at new capital combined cycle plant to begin at the end of March

Siemens will begin commercial operations at the new capital combined cycle power plant at the end of the month, Orascom Construction’s quality control manager Maged Kamal said. Two turbines of the power plant, which have been currently operating on a trial run, will be fully operational by the end of March and will bring the plant’s production capacity to 800 MW. Three more turbines will begin commercial operations by the end of the year, which would bring total capacity of the plant up to 1,200 MW, he added, according to Daily News Egypt.