Six bids at the Elcen auction for the new cogeneration power plant at CET Bucharest Sud, a 2 billion lei project
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Electrcentrale București received, by the deadline, six bids for the contract “Implementation of a high-efficiency cogeneration unit in CTE București Sud”, according to data from the Electronic Public Procurement System.
The list includes the Egyptian energy project construction company Elsewedy Electric (Egypt), Tecnicas Reunidas (Spain), Calik Enerji (Turkey), Kalyon (Turkey), Bonatti SpA Parma (Italy) and the association KT-Kinetics Technology (Italy) and BCC Group CJSC (Azerbaijan).
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Electrocentrale București launched the tender for a new gas-fired cogeneration power plant in București Sud, a project worth over 2.1 billion lei in the first part of December. The contract value is 2.13 billion lei, partially financed by the European Commission’s Modernisation Fund. The contract runs for a period of 81 months.
The project involves a power plant with an installed electrical power of 275 MWe and an installed thermal capacity of 214 MWt (185 Gcal/h), with a gross overall efficiency of the cogeneration unit of 85.8%. The power plant will use natural gas as fuel, with the possibility of operating in a mixture with hydrogen in the future, and will have specific CO2 emissions of max. 235 g/kWhe. The power plant must be able to ensure secondary regulation and be able to participate in system technological services.
In addition to this investment at CET Sud, Elcen is developing new projects to build new gas-fired capacities in the other two power plants in the Capital, Grozăveşti and Progresu.
The Grozăvești project aims to rehabilitate and modernize the existing capacity for the central and northwestern area of the Capital by creating a new high-efficiency cogeneration unit, with an installed power of 32.5 MWe, and a thermal capacity of 41 MWt.
The Progresu project involves a new gas-fired power plant with an electrical capacity of 74.2 MWe and a thermal capacity of 72.8 MWt.
All three plants benefit from European money. The financing contracts for the three projects were signed with the Ministry of Energy in 2024, the total value of the non-reimbursable financing from the Modernization Fund amounting to approximately 362 million euros. For the Progresu and Grozăvești plants, the procedures for launching the tender are underway.
Currently, the installed electrical power in Elcen’s four plants (CET București Sud, CET Vest, CET Progresu, CET Grozăvești) is 1,286 MW, but the available power is only 601 MW, as the company shows, given that, during the winter period, electrical energy consumption in Bucharest is approximately 700 MW.
