Unit V
Unit V was added to the existing four units of the Agios Dimitrios plant to be connected to the 400 kV outdoor switchgear, to increase the supply energy to the Greek national transmission grid. It is a unit of 350 MW electric, plus 70 MW thermal for district heating purposes.
In 1993, PPC awarded the contract for the supply and installation of Unit V to the consortium of the companies Ansaldo GIE (consortium leader - Italy, at present (2008) Ansaldo Energia a Finmeccanica Company), Austrian Energy and Environment SGP/Waagner-Biro GmbH (Austria) and AEGEK (Greece).
Main steps of the contract execution were:
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- cooling tower completion - November 1995
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- 6 kV initial electrification - August 1996
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- boiler first ignition - February 1997
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- unit first synchronization - May 1997
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- official opening - October 1997
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- commercial operation - December 1997
In May 1995, the Kozani area suffered an earthquake of 6.6 degrees on the Richter scale, which affected the progress of the work.
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