Voith Hydro is to overhaul three hydro power plants in Italy in contracts valued at around EUR 16 million.
For ACEA S.p.A., Voith will modernize the 100-year-old Alessandro Volta plant in Castel Madama, Rome province. The firm will supply the complete equipment for the two power generating units (4.5 and 2.7MW respectively): Francis spiral turbines, generators, the respective governors, automation and balance of plant.
The company will also work on two modernization projects for BKW Italia S.p.A., a member of the BKW Group. For the Pompegnino project in the province of Brescia, Voith will overhaul two x 1.1MW Kaplan turbines, of which the first was installed in 1927. It will also supply new according generators, hydraulic governors, the automation and electrical balance of plant.
The second project is Pont St. Martin plant, located in the province of Aosta. At this project, which originally began generating 2.53MW in 1932, Voith will replace the four horizontal Francis units with one new vertical seven-bladed Kaplan turbine (3MW) unit and one horizontal Francis machine (600kV). Again, Voith's scope of supply includes turbines, generators, hydraulic governors, the automation and electrical balance of plant.
Image: view of Alessandro Volta hydropower plant in Castel Madama.
