ENDESA to Invest Euro 54 Million in Modernising Its Coal-Fired Plants Located in the Iberian Peninsula
May 22 2007 - 4:05PM
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ENDESA (NYSE:ELE) has embarked on an initiative to modernise the
steam turbines in use at its coal-fired plants located within the
Iberian Peninsula. The project involves work on the As Pontes (La
Coru�a), Compostilla (Ponferrada), Teruel (Andorra-Teruel), Litoral
(Almer�a) and Los Barrios (C�diz) plants. The modernisation
process, which requires an investment in excess of 54 million
euros, consists of removing all the moving (rotor) and fixed
elements of the high and medium pressure turbines and replacing
them with new, highly-efficient materials boasting cutting-edge
designs. Only the outer shells of the current turbines will survive
the process intact. The modernisation work will be carried out at
the same time as the major services of the power plants or, in the
case of the As Pontes plant, the conversions of the boilers, and
will benefit the company by extending the useful life of the
turbines by around 25 years. Turnkey contracts for the work have
been awarded to three turbine manufacturing companies. The work in
question will commence in July 2007 and will last until 2010, when
modernisation work on the Compostilla power station will be
completed. The primary objective of the initiative is to improve
the specific consumption of each plant by 3%, largely thanks to a
more efficient design and the use of new materials. As well as
extending their useful life, the modernisation of the steam
turbines will bring about other benefits, such as increased output
power, improved availability and reduced maintenance costs,
stemming from the use of newly designed components that suffer less
wear and tear between services. As a result of the modernisation
work, ENDESA plants located within the Iberian Peninsula will
become significantly more competitive. From an environmental
standpoint, the advantages speak for themselves. The modernisation
will lead to yearly savings of approximately 290,000 tonnes of coal
and will likewise cut CO2 emissions into the atmosphere by 550,000
tonnes a year. The modernisation work on the plants will require
over 200,000 hours of assembly work over the next three years,
which will in turn lead to the creation of roughly 42 direct jobs
at the plants and around 20 indirect jobs to manufacture numerous
different items over the course of the project. * This document may
contain certain forward-looking statements regarding anticipated
financial and operating results and statistics that are subject to
risks and uncertainties as well as to material risks, changes and
other factors which may be difficult to predict, including, without
limitation, those factors described in the Documento de Registro de
Acciones of Endesa filed within the Comisi�n Nacional del Mercado
de Valores and in the Form 20-F of Endesa filed within the
Securities and Exchange Commission, both for the fiscal year ended
December 31, 2004. For all of these forward-looking statements, we
claim the protection of the safe harbour for forward-looking
statements contained in the Private Securities Litigation Reform
Act of 1995.
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