NORTE FLUMINENSE Combined Cycle Power Plant is a project developed by EDF - Electricité de France - 90% of capital and PETROBRÁS - with 10% of capital.
The power plant is built in a hill near BR101 highway and in close vicinity of Macaé River, in Northern rural area of Rio de Janeiro State - a region of low population density.
NORTE FLUMINENSE was built by AGPO Consortium (Andrade Gutierrez/Promon/Norberto Odebrecht) in EPC scheme to the owner UTNF.
Power generated by NORTE FLUMINENSE is delivered to LIGHT Utility (EDF Group). With this new volume of power, the State of Rio de Janeiro stops beeing an importer of energy,reaching self -sufficiency.
The plant operates in a combined cycle scheme since dec09th, 2003 when a steam unit was put into commercial service added to existing 03 combustion turbines, firing natural gas.
Combustion turbines are 180MW rated and the steam turbine is 240MW rated totalizing 780MW of generating capacity.
The 03 combustion turbines generators 501F and 01 steam turbine generator was supplied by Siemens - Westinghouse Power Corp. (USA), both GSU and auxiliary transformers for 4 units was supplied by Siemens Ltda, Brazil.
Power generated is evacuated to GSU by means of 04 sets of Isolated Phase Bus 15/23kV-10000A designed,manufactured,tested and shipped to jobsite by PowerBus, Itajaí, Brazil supplied to AGPO Consortium in 2002/03.
PowerBus also performed jobsite erection and comissioning tests supervision of the equipment supplied.