Siemens has been awarded a 23-year contract for Panda Hummel Station in Texas

Siemens has been awarded a 23-year long-term service and maintenance agreement for the upcoming Panda Hummel Station, a 1.124GW combined cycle power plant in Pennsylvania. The customer is Panda Power Funds, headquartered in Dallas, Texas.
The new agreement includes coverage of scheduled maintenance activities, program management, and parts for the plant’s three SGT6-5000F gas turbines. It also includes inspection services for the SST6-5000 steam turbine, the three SGen6-1000A air-cooled generators within the gas turbine packages, and for the one hydrogen-cooled SGen6-2000H generator as part of the steam turbine package. A resident engineer will be located on site for the first three years.
Also included in the agreement is Siemens Power DiagnosticsTM, a data-driven product from the Siemens Digital Services portfolio that is designed to help identify, assess and diagnose abnormal operating conditions and to recommend actions to be taken before an issue impacts operations.
All 15 Siemens gas turbines (11 SGT6-5000F and four SGT6-8000H units) ordered by Panda Power Funds since 2012 have long-term service agreements in place with Siemens. Panda Hummel Station is the seventh project in the U.S. and the third in Pennsylvania awarded by Panda to Siemens for both power generation equipment and long-term service.
Scheduled to begin operations in 2018, the Panda Hummel Station will supply power to more than one million households in the Mid-Atlantic region, including Philadelphia and New York City. The new Marcellus gas-fueled, combined cycle power project is located near Shamokin Dam in Snyder County, Pennsylvania, occupying 18 acres at the site of the recently retired Sunbury coal-fired power plant.