ALSTOM awarded hydro refurbishment order from Scottish power, UK

ALSTOM has been awarded an order for approximately 5 million
euros by Scottish Power, to refurbish two hydro power stations,
Carsfad and Earlstoun, located in South West Scotland. 
ALSTOM’s Rugby based Hydro Power Unit is responsible for
the management of this refurbishment project.

Both Carsfad and Earlstoun are part of the Galloway Scheme
that involved the construction of five hydro power stations
between 1930 and 1936, all powered by water from the same
catchment area in Galloway.  The Carsfad and Earlstoun
power stations, both built in 1936, have a current capacity 12
MW and 13 MW respectively.

The scope of supply includes new runners and guide vanes,
regulating gear, spiral casings, draft tubes, stop logs and
station cranes. The new runner will be designed, and
manufactured in ALSTOM’s facility in Grenoble,
France.

In addition to renewing the runners and guide vanes to
extend the life of the stations, the objective of the
refurbishment is to qualify the refurbished stations for
Renewable Obligation Certificates (ROC's).

Paul Lane, Managing Director of ALSTOM’s Hydro Unit in
the UK comments: “The Hydro Systems business in Rugby has
now successfully refurbished several hydro stations in the UK,
which arose as a result of the UK Government’s renewable
energy initiative. This latest contract with Scottish Power is
a continuation of that incentive to generate electric power
from ‘green’ energy”.

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ALSTOM is a global leader in energy and
transport infrastructure. The Company serves the energy
market through its activities in the fields of power
generation and power transmission and distribution, and the
transport market through its activities in rail and marine.
In fiscal year 2002/03, ALSTOM had annual sales in excess of
€20 billion and employed around 100,000 people in over
70 countries worldwide. 

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