Hydropower Plants
Tanahu Hydropower Project
Location: Tanahu, Gandaki Province, Nepal
Capacity: 140 MW, 480 Gwh
Services provided:
- Review of construction and supply contracts
- Review of financing arrangements
- Assistance in contract negotiations
- Assistance in project accounting
- Construction supervision and quality assurance
- Contract management of three contractors
- Training of client’s personnel, and support of operation in first 5 years operation phase
Laúca Hydropower Project
Location: Angola, Kwanza River
Capacity: 2,910,000 m3 RCC dam Total installed capacity 2.070 MW 6 x 340 MW in underground powerhouse (6+1) Francis turbines
Capacity: 2,910,000 m3 RCC dam Total installed capacity 2.070 MW 6 x 340 MW in underground powerhouse (6+1) Francis turbines
Services provided:
- Advisory services to the main works
- Review of feasibility studies (2010) and basic design
- Technical assistance (during tendering processes)
- Project implementation on EPC base
- Construction design approval (civil + E&M)
- Supervision of construction works and equipment installation
- Factory inspections
- Commissioning + initial operation
Upper Tamakoshi Hydropower Project
Location: Dolakha, Bagmati Province, Nepal
Capacity: 456 MW 6 No. Pelton turbines, gross head: 822 m
Capacity: 456 MW 6 No. Pelton turbines, gross head: 822 m
Services provided:
- Environmental and social studies
- Detailed TD, civil, electromechanical & transmission works
- Project management, coordination and contract procedures
- Preparation of final design and construction drawings, review of previous design and studies
- Supervision of construction, schedule and planning
- Commissioning of the plant, post construction services during liability period.
Sungai Perak Hydroelectric Stations
Life Extension Program and Engineering Consultancy Services for Dam Safety Enhancement
Location: along the Perak River, at Malaysian Peninsula at the state of Perak Malaysia
Capacity: 4 hydropower plants with total 649.1MW
Capacity: 4 hydropower plants with total 649.1MW
Services provided:
- Rehabilitation & upgrade study, feasibiliity study, sustainable development and risk managment studies
- Front End Engineering & Design (FEED)
- Conceptual and basic design
- Capacity building
- Environmental and Sicial Impact Assessment (ESIA)
Sustainable Bakaru I&II Hydropower Project
Location: Sulawesi Island at the Mamasa River, Indonesia
Capacity: 270 MW
Capacity: 270 MW
Services provided:
Stage I (Bakaru I & II HEPP):
- Design Review and detailed engineering design
- Topographical, hydrological andsedimentological surveys
- Geological site investigations
- Concept for rehabilitation of Bakaru I HEPP
- Tender documents and assistance in tendering process and contract negotiations
- Update of ESIA, preparation of ESMP
- Construction design and review of design of equipment manufacturers
- Supervision of construction and equipment components as well as testing, commissioning up to TOC & COD
- Supervise operation after COD up to FAC
- Contract and claim management, defect liability period
Kárahnjúkar Hydropower Plant
Location: Iceland
Capacity: 6 x 115 MW Transformer cavern: 103 m / 13.5 m / 14.5 m based on the Jökulsá rivers
Capacity: 6 x 115 MW Transformer cavern: 103 m / 13.5 m / 14.5 m based on the Jökulsá rivers
Services provided:
- Owner’s representative on site
- Site supervision
- Interface management
- Contract management
- Assistance in contract negotiations
- Cost planning, monitoring of construction time
Baglihar Hydropower Project
Location: India, Chenab River
Capacity: Stage I: 450 MW commissioned 2008 Stage II: 450 MW commissioned 2016
Capacity: Stage I: 450 MW commissioned 2008 Stage II: 450 MW commissioned 2016
Services provided:
- Design review
- Review of construction and supply contracts
- Assistance in contract negotiations
- Construction and erection supervision
- Contract management
- Supervision during commissioning and defects liability period
- Support during operation and maintenance
Merowe Dam and Hydropower Plant
Location: River Nile, Republic of Sudan
Capacity: 1,250 MW Spillway capacity: 19,900 m3/s Francis turbines
Capacity: 1,250 MW Spillway capacity: 19,900 m3/s Francis turbines
Services provided:
- Reconnaissance studies
- Hydrological analysis
- Reservoir operation simulations
- Flood frequency analysis
- Preparation of a bankable feasibility study
- Workshop
Plant Rehabilitation
Rehabilitation of Nalubaale and Kiira HPPs
Location: Uganda, Jinja
Capacity:
Nalubaale HPP: 180 MW (10 x 18 MW)
Kiira HPP: 200 MW (5 x 40 MW)
Capacity:
Nalubaale HPP: 180 MW (10 x 18 MW)
Kiira HPP: 200 MW (5 x 40 MW)
Services provided:
- Phase 1: Review and Basic Studies incl. ESIA/Compliance Assessment and Environmental & Social Risk Screening/Initial Impact Assessments for all possible options.
- Phase 2: Feasibility Study (Detailed Studies and Optimization) incl. detailed ESIA/ESMPs and any E&S specialist studies for up to 3 options (corresponding to options selected for detailed study).
- Milestone presentations, workshops and reports
Agus-Pulangi Complex Rehabilitation Project; Multiple Option Study (MOS)
Location: Island of Mindanao located in the southern region of the Philippines archipelago, Philippines
Capacity: 7 run-of-river HPPs with about 1,000 MW
Capacity: 7 run-of-river HPPs with about 1,000 MW
Services provided:
- Rehabilitation & upgrade study
- Due diligence
- Environmental and Social
- Impact Assessment (ESIA)
- Experts mission and consultancy
- Economic / dinancial analysis; trariff study
- Strategy – Roadmap Portfolie assessment
- Resouces mapping
Overall Rehabilitation of KHR Hydropower Plants
Location: Thusis, Switzerland
Capacity: 650 MW consisting of a group of hydropower plants (Ferrera, Bärenburg and Sils)
Capacity: 650 MW consisting of a group of hydropower plants (Ferrera, Bärenburg and Sils)
Technical Data:
- HPP Ferrera: 3×60 MW at max. 524 m head; storage pumps: 2×25 and 1×40 MW
- HPP Bärenburg: 4×55 MW at max. 321 m head
- HPP Sils: 4×62 MW at max. 413 m head
- HPP Thusis: 2+4 MW at max. 100 m head
Services provided:
- Overall management
- Concept of rehabilitation and scheduling
- Cost estimate and risk analysis
- Preparation of tender documents
- Support for contract award
- Construction, erection and commissioning supervision
- Acceptance tests
Rehabilitation of Perućica Hydro Power Plant
Location: Montenegro
Capacity: 307 MW (potential upgrade to 365.5 MW)
Capacity: 307 MW (potential upgrade to 365.5 MW)
Technical Data:
- Embarkment dams, 16.5 to 22.5 m height, length 1.5 to 2.35 km
- Surface powerhouse, Pelton turbine type, 5 generating units each 38MW, 2 generating units each 58.5 MW and future 8th unit (58.5MW), rated head 526 m
Services provided:
- Review of existing feasibility designs and tender design/documents for plant modernization
- Identification of physical rehabilitation works for of the power plant
- Tender documents for modelling and testing of equipment and civil structures, supervision of execution
- Program for rehabilitation and preparation of financial/economic analyses
Rehabilitation of Hydro Power Plant Rama
Location: Bosnia and Herzegovina
Capacity: 200 MW
Capacity: 200 MW
Technical Data:
- 2 x 100 MW Francis turbine generating units, design head 285 m, 2 x 111 MVA synchronous generator, headrace tunnel inner diameter 5 m, length 9.5 km
Services provided:
- Preparation of tender documents
- Bid Evaluation and assistance in equipment procurement
- Approval of contractor’s design and factory acceptance tests,
- Witness turbine model test
- Site supervision of erection and commissioning
Rehabilitation Hydroelectric Power Plant Trebinje 1 - Phase III
Location: Bosnia and Herzegovina
Capacity: 163.5 W
Capacity: 163.5 W
Technical Data:
3 x 54.5 MW Francis turbine, net head 86.5 m, 3 x 70 m³/s, 1.3 billion m³ storage volume of Bileca reservoir
3 x 54.5 MW Francis turbine, net head 86.5 m, 3 x 70 m³/s, 1.3 billion m³ storage volume of Bileca reservoir
Services provided:
- Specification of physical works and services with drafting of inquiries to testing institutes;
- Evaluation of the test results and preparation of an
- Investigation Report incl. recommended rehabilitation concept;
- Elaboration of tender documents (incl. ECA), bid evaluation;
- Assistance in tendering and negotiation of supply contracts
Rehabilitation Hydroelectric Power Plant Zvornik
Location: Serbia
Capacity: 96 MW
Capacity: 96 MW
Technical Data:
- 4 x 24 MW Kaplan turbines, 155 m³/sDesign head 16-24 m, 4 x 30 MVA Synchronous generators (150 rpm, cos phi 0.8), 4 x 31.5 MVA 11/121 kV step-up transformers 110-kV switchyard for grid connection
Services provided:
- Review of tender documents
- Bid evaluation
- Assistance in contract negotiations
- Review and approval of contractor’s design
- Factory Acceptance Tests
- Assistance for site supervision
Forbach Pumped Storage Project
Location: Baden-Württemberg – Germany
Capacity: 225 MW + 50 MW
Capacity: 225 MW + 50 MW
- Services provided:
- Pre-feasibility studies
- Feasibility study and design
- Technical documentation for regional planning process and permitting
- Basic and tender design
- Supervision of hydraulic numerical model tests
- Assistance in preparation of tender documents and tender evaluation
- Detailed / as-built design partly in BIM
Frasin Pumped Storage Plant
Location: Bistrita River (Izvorul Muntelui lake), Romania
Capacity: 300 MW turbine operation 310 MW pump operation
Capacity: 300 MW turbine operation 310 MW pump operation
Services provided:
- Review and optimize the project layout concept
- Review and evaluate surveys and site investigations
- Define additional site investigations and surveys
- Feasibility study
- Technical documentation and basic design for building permit (DTAC)
- Detailed design and drawings
- Tender documents and evaluation
Snowy 2.0 Pumped Storage Plant
Location: Cooma – Australia
Capacity: 2.,080 MW
Capacity: 2.,080 MW
Services provided:
- Detailed design and construction design of the Power Station Complex and associated tunnels
- Construction drawings and associated calculation reports (~2000 drawings)
- Construction support services
- Complete BIM modeling
- Cavern 50m x 35m x 225m
Matengeng Pumped Storage Plant
Location: Cimancing & Citeuteul River, Indonesia
Capacity: 4 x 240 MW turbine operation 4 x 247 MW pump operation
Capacity: 4 x 240 MW turbine operation 4 x 247 MW pump operation
Services provided:
- Review of the feasibility study
- Scope of works for additional investigations
- Additional investigations and surveys
- Detailed design
- Tender documents
- Tender evaluation
Happurg Pumped Storage Plant Rehabilitation
Location: Middle Franconia, near Nuremberg, Germany
Capacity: 160 MW
Capacity: 160 MW
Services provided:
- Concept study for the rehabilitation of M & E & AUT & HSS-Equipment and Penstocks
- Tender documents for a total of 15 lots
- Tender procedure with prior selection of possible suppliers
- Participation & support during contract negotiation
- Site supervision during project execution
Limberg III Pumped Storage Plant
Location: Gross Glockner-Kaprun, Austria
Capacity: 2 x 240 MW Rated discharge 2 x 72 m3/s
Capacity: 2 x 240 MW Rated discharge 2 x 72 m3/s
Services provided:
- Tender design & documents
- Tendering services & tender evaluation
- Construction design
- Preparation of tender documents for building services
- All design services applying BIM
Festiniog Pumped Storage Plant – Unit Refurbishment
Location: Wales – United Kingdom
Capacity: 360 MW (generation), 300 MW (pumping)
Capacity: 360 MW (generation), 300 MW (pumping)
Services provided:
- Review of technical rehabilitation options
- Review of tender documents
- Review of preferred bidder’s offer
- Assistance during implementation of rehabilitation works with continuous presence at site of a Technical Project Manager
Cultana Pumped Storage Plant
Location: Upper Spencer Gulf Australia
Capacity: 220 MW
Capacity: 220 MW
Services provided:
- Detailed Design and Engineering for EPC mode of construction
- Preparation of 3D BIM (Revit, LOD 300) model
- BoQ and construction drawing generation via BIM
- Design interfacing between civil and equipment components
Vianden Pump Storage Plant
Location: Vianden, Our River, Luxembourg
Capacity: Extension by Unit 11: Power capacity increase: + 200 MW Reservoir capacity increase: + 500,000 m³ In addition to existing plant Units 1 – 10 totaling 1,100 MW
Capacity: Extension by Unit 11: Power capacity increase: + 200 MW Reservoir capacity increase: + 500,000 m³ In addition to existing plant Units 1 – 10 totaling 1,100 MW
Services provided:
Services related to Unit 11:
Services related to Unit 11:
- Conceptual study, development of optimized project concept
- Detailed design, design to apply for government approval, tender design
- Preparation of tender documents, assistance during tendering and contracting
- Construction design of underground excavations
- Supervision of works
Goldisthal Pumped Storage Plant
Location: Schwarza River, Germany
Capacity: 4 x 269 MW turbine operation 4 x 257 MW pump operation
Capacity: 4 x 269 MW turbine operation 4 x 257 MW pump operation
Services provided:
- Study of alternatives
- Feasibility study including geo technical field and laboratory investigations
- Tender design and documents
- Tender evaluations
- Contract awards
- Construction drawings and structural design
- Construction management and construction supervision
- Commissioning
Lagobianco Pumped Storage Plant
Location: 25 km south-east of St. Moritz, Switzerland
Capacity: 6 x 175 MW Rated discharge 6 x 12.3 m3/s
Capacity: 6 x 175 MW Rated discharge 6 x 12.3 m3/s
Services provided:
- Conceptual design, design for governmental approval
- Tender design & documents
Abdelmoumen Pumped Storage Plant
Location: Agadir – Morocco
Capacity: 350 MW
Capacity: 350 MW
Services provided:
- Basic and detailed design
- Tender documents for construction, bid evaluation and assistance during contract negotiation
- Technical assistance during construction
Limmern Pumped Storage Plant
Location: Muttsee, Switzerland
Capacity: 4 x 250 MW turbine operation 4 x 250 MW pump operation
Capacity: 4 x 250 MW turbine operation 4 x 250 MW pump operation
Services provided:
- System definitions
- Concept papers
- Tender documents for the electromechanical equipment (Lot C1) and the electrical equipment (Lot C2)
- Tender evaluations for the electromechanical equipment (Lot C1) and the electrical equipment (Lot C2) and support during contract negotiation
- Approval of the basic design of the Contractor for the electromechanical equipment (Lot C1)
Atdorf Pumped Storage Project
Location: Southern Black Forest – Germany
Capacity: 1,400 MW
Capacity: 1,400 MW
Services provided:
1992 – 1993:
1992 – 1993:
- Reconnaissance study
- Pre-feasibility and feasibility study
- Study of project alternatives
- Optimisation study & conceptual design
- Definite design & approval design
- Assistance during geotechnical investigations
Extension Waldeck II Pumped Storage Plant
Location: Hesse – Germany
Capacity: 300 MW
Capacity: 300 MW
Services provided:
- Conceptual design
- Geologic / geotechnical investigations
- Design and licence planning
Waldeck I Pumped Storage Plant Extension
Location: Hesse – Germany
Capacity: 140 MW (after rehab)
Capacity: 140 MW (after rehab)
Services provided:
- Pre-feasibility/ feasibility design
- Geological / geotechnical investigations
- Condition assessment of old plant
- Design for government approval
- Tender/ bid evaluation
- Approval of final design
- Construction supervision and site management
Hatta Pumped Storage Project
Location: Dubai – United Arab Emirates
Capacity: 250 MW
Capacity: 250 MW
Services provided:
- Review of tender design
- Design of 2 value-engineering alternatives
- Contribution to the methodology presented in EPC tender
- Check of structural calculation and Bill of Quantities
- Coordination of design interface (civil works / equipment)
Pumped Storage Plant -
Site Selection in Egypt
Location: Egypt
Capacity: N/A
Capacity: N/A
Services provided:
- Nation-wide identification of suitable sites using satellite imagery, digital elevation models and GIS tools
- Site inspection
- Multi-criteria analysis and ranking
- Layout design and cost estimates of the 3 most promising sites
- Final ranking
Feasibility Study for Reconstruction Options of Zagorsk Pumped Storage Plant - 2
Location: Sergiev Posad – Russian Federation
Capacity: 840 MW
Capacity: 840 MW
Services provided:
- Investigation and analysis of causes of the accident on Zagorsk PSPP-2, which needs to be considered while defining the rehabilitation options
- Analysis of the current geological and hydrogeological conditions
- Development of a feasibility study for Zagorsk PSPP-2 rehabilitation options, including:
- Collection and analysis of initial data;
- Analysis of the existing technologies and equipment, and elaboration of recommendations on their application in rehabilitation
Water Resources
Mahaweli Water Security Investment Program
Location: Sri Lanka
Capacity: Irrigation: 103,000 ha Drinking Water: 162 MCM
Capacity: Irrigation: 103,000 ha Drinking Water: 162 MCM
Services provided:
- Engineering planning, detailed design and tender documents
- Works construction supervision, contract management, program management
- Institutional development and training
- Strategic environmental assessment
- Project preparation and preliminary design for proposed phase 2 (mainly irrigation; approximately 1.0 billion US$)
Mubarak Pumping Station
LocationEgpyt
Capacity: 24 units x 12 MW = 288 MW
Discharge of 350 m3/s Offshore, concrete
Capacity: 24 units x 12 MW = 288 MW
Discharge of 350 m3/s Offshore, concrete
Services provided:
- Tender design for a consortium of contractors
- Construction design
- Assistance and quality assurance to the contractor
Sustainable Water and Land Resources
Enhancing Climate Resilience of Hydropower Plants
Strategy – Due Diligence
Location:
in regions: Tashkent, Kashkadarya, Surkhandarya, Andijan, and Namangan, and Sirdarya and Amudarya rivers
in regions: Tashkent, Kashkadarya, Surkhandarya, Andijan, and Namangan, and Sirdarya and Amudarya rivers
Services provided:
- Master plan
- Market study, resources mapping, capacity building, research and development, roadmap
- Project development
- Conceptual Design
- Regulation and policy
- Economic / financial analysis
- Portfolio assessment Training
- Experts Mission and Consultancy
- Due Diligence
Irrigation Master Plan Preparation through Integrated River Basin Planning
Preparation of an Irrigation Master Plan based on river basin management plans, irrigation water use inventory, and irrigation policy for a catchment areas of approx. 145,610 km².
Location: Nepal – countrywide
Services provided:
- Natural resources and land use management programme
- Data collection, review, validation, and development of database system
- Irrigation and water use inventory
- Water Resources (surface and groundwater) assessment and analysis
- Land resources assessment and mapping
- Planning and development of hydraulic models and River Basin Management Plans (RBMPs)
- Prepare Priority Irrigation and Flood Risk Management Project
- Update methodologies for flow assessment of the streams/rivers
Flood Hazard Mapping and Preliminary Preparation of Flood Risk Management Projects
Flood hazard and risk maps of 25 river basins (priority basins) considered for preparation of high-resolution flood hazard and flood risk maps (FHFRMs) with climate change scenario.
Location:
Nepalese Floodplains near the Indian border
Services provided:
- Collection and valuation of field survey data
- Preparation of DEM covering all river basins based on stereo satellite imagery
- Hydrological and hydraulic modelling for each of the river basins
- Preparation of climate change induced Flood Hazard and Flood Risk Maps for 25 river basins
- Preparation of concept notes, engineering designs and cost estimates on pre-feasibility level for 6 sub-projects
- Recommendation of waterway and greenbelt requirement for every river
Songwe River Basin Development Programme
Multi-purpose river basin development (about 4,200 km²), including dams and hydropower plants, irrigation schemes, river stabilisation, social infrastructure, environmental and social impact assessments, and institutional development including formation of a river basin organisation.
Location:
Songwe River Basin at the Northern end of Lake Nyasa/Malawi
Owner’s Engineer
Services provided:
- Market study, resettlement action plan, resources mapping, training
- Detailed Design
- Tender Documentation
- Feasibility study
- Sustainable Development Studies
- Conceptual and basic Design
- Economic / financial analysis
- Environmental and Social Management Plan and Impact
- Assessment (ESMP) and (ESIA) Project development
- Front End Engineering & Design (FEED)
- Regulation and policy, capacity building
Feasibility Study for Water Transfer from North to Central Tunisia
Analyse of opportunities to transfer water in order to respond to the hydrological imbalance that characterise the management of water resources between the rather humid northern basins and the dry basins of central Tunisia.
Location: North and central Tunisia
Pre-Feasilibity and Feasilibiy Study
Services provided:
- Topographic field surveys
- Bathymetric surveys at Canal and Oued Seinene (6 km)
- Geotechnical surveys
- Hydrological studies: simulation of water transfer scenarios
- Hydraulic design of pressure pipes
- Hydraulic design of open surface flow, including river modeling on HEC-RAS software
- Design of tanks and balancing chambers
- Pumping station design
- Conception SCADA
- Multi-criteria analysis