South Africa’s largest public utility company, Eskom, has awarded Alstom a contract to retrofit the low pressure steam turbines in its Kriel coal-fired power station. The contract is valued at approximately €110 million.

Between 1 April and 30 September 2012, Alstom booked a sound level of orders at €12.1 billion, up 19% compared to the first half of last year, driven in particular by a strong semester for Transport. Over the same period, sales were up 4%, amounting to €9.7 billion.

Between 1 April 2011 and 31 March 2012, Alstom booked €21.7 billion of orders, up 14% compared to last year. As announced, the fourth quarter was particularly strong with €6.6 billion of new contracts.

Alstom,worldwide leader in the production of hydropower equipment and services, has been awarded a contract worth above €20 million by Chinese engineering firm Sinohydro Corporation Ltd to provide key engineering equipment to the new Itezhi-Tezhi hydroelectric dam in Zambia. The contract was signed on 9 September 2011.

The Alstom Chair in Clean Energy Systems Technology (ACCEST) was inaugurated today at the University of the Witwatersrand, in Johannesburg, South Africa through a partnership, which will see Alstom investing over ZAR 17 million in various projects at the University between 2009 and 2016.

Alstom, the world’s leading supplier of air quality control systems (AQCS) for power plants, has won a contract worth approximately €160 million to build South Africa’s first wet flue gas desulphurisation (FGD*) system at the Kusile power plant, further strengthening its leadership in air quality control systems.

Alstom, a leader in integrated energy management solutions for power plants, has won a contract worth €90 million for the automation of Eskom’s latest thermal power plant project, Kusile. Alstom Power will engineer, supply and install its latest ALSPA® Series 6 Distributed Control System (DCS).

Alstom has signed a contract worth over €100 million with South African utility Eskom to provide the instrumentation and control system for the world’s largest coal-fired power plant, Medupi in South Africa. The contract confirms Alstom as a recognised leader in the supply of large-scale automation systems for large power plants. Alstom has also provided Eskom with the option, worth an additional €100 million, to install an identical system on Medupi’s sister plant, Kusile.

Alstom, a global leader in power generation, today announced that it has signed a contract worth approximately EUR 125 million with South Africa’s state-owned utility Eskom to retrofit the low-pressure turbines of the two 970 MWe units at Koeberg Nuclear Power Station, South Africa’s sole nuclear power plant.

Alstom will participate in reshaping the shareholding of Alstom South Africa (Pty) Ltd Group (ASA), its former subsidiary which it sold in 2002 to a group of investors.

Alstom is the world’s leading supplier of “conventional islands” (or “turbine islands”) for nuclear power plants, and has fitted close to 180 units around the globe. More than 30% of the world’s nuclear power stations operating today use Alstom-made equipment.

Alstom has signed a contract worth more than 1.3 billion euros with state-owned utility Eskom to provide key equipments for a 4,740 MW coal-fired power station located in Mpumalanga province, east of Johannesburg, South Africa. This is the second major agreement within a few months between the two companies after Alstom was awarded a similar contract for the Medupi coal-fired power station, located in the north-eastern province of Limpopo, in November 2007.

Alstom has won a contract worth more than 1.4 billion euros with South African state-owned utility company Eskom to supply six turbine islands part of what will be the biggest coal-fired power plant in South Africa.

Alstom has won a contract worth 110 million euros to refurbish the 2,100 MW Arnot coal-fired power plant in South Africa, and increase its power output by 300 MW to 2,400 MW.  The plant is owned by state-owned utility company Eskom.

ALSTOM has recently won a series of Power generation contracts for a total value more than €180 million from countries all over the world.

ALSTOM Completes The Disposal Of Its South African Operations

ALSTOM acquires Reunert's shareholding in ALSTOM South Africa