Flexible baseload solutions

Flexible baseload power plant solutions

Steady and continuous power supply

Flexible baseload power plant solutions

Wärtsilä power plants offer steady and continuous power supply ensuring industries, businesses, and communities can rely on reliable energy every minute, hour, and day after day. Due to their reliable and low carbon footprint power production they are ideal for baseload power production for utilities, cost conscious IPPs, industrial companies and data centres.

Wärtsilä engines are resilient and work efficiently even in harsh climate conditions. Engine power plants can provide energy for production processes along with spinning reserve to meet varying energy loads in production. Our power plants are not only meeting the demands of today, but also ensuring a sustainable and more resilient tomorrow.

Engine power plants are flexible, and they adapt to different operation profiles and running hours. This enables possibility to integrate renewables seamlessly into your energy mix, as they come on-stream. Plants are also easy to configure and expand for future needs.

Key benefits of Wärtsilä flexible baseload plants

Efficient

Power plants based on multiple engine generating set units are far more reliable and fuel efficient than single – or several – large power stations.
Serve efficiently on part load and in demanding ambient conditions, enabling high dispatch even in hot climates and at high altitudes.
We also offer the highest available simple cycle energy efficiency of current technologies, 50% or more.
With the Wärtsilä Flexicycle™ application the advantages of a flexible simple cycle plant are combined with the superb efficiency of a combined cycle plant.

Resilient

High performance under extreme operating conditions including temperature, fuel supply, and drought. Minimal water usage.
Low gas pressure requirements, black-start and dual-fuel capabilities.

Reliable

Multiple units maximize plant availability – up to 99% reliability year-round in the plants we operate. We’ve delivered over 79 GW in 180 countries.
This technology has clocked over 175 million hours of run time.

Our flexible baseload power plant products

Wärtsilä 31SG gas engine

51.5% efficiency 51.6% efficiency | 90% CHP efficiency

Optimal combination of power and efficiency
Excellent option for heat recovery
Ideal for balancing and flexible baseload

Wärtsilä 31SG efficiency optimised

52.1% electrical efficiency 52.2% electrical efficiency | 2,5 min to full load

World record in efficiency
Low operating costs
Ideal for flexible baseload

Wärtsilä 31DF dual fuel engine

49.9% electrical efficiency 50.3% electrical efficiency | 2,5 min to full load

Low operating costs
Wide range of fuels
Ideal for balancing and flexible baseload as well as CHP

Wärtsilä 32 liquid fuel engine

47.4% efficiency 47.6% efficiency | 2 000+ installed engines

Track record in reliability since 1990's
Even for small power plants from 5.5 MW
Ideal for balancing and flexible baseload as well as CHP

Wärtsilä 34SG gas engine

48.9% efficiency 48.8% efficiency | Over 80% CHP efficiency

Excellent for heat recovery
Even for small power plants from 5.5 MW
Ideal for balancing and flexible baseload as well as CHP

Wärtsilä 34DF dual fuel engine

48.5% efficiency 48.7% efficiency | 2 min to full load

Outstanding dynamic features
Even for small power plants from 5.5 MW
Ideal for balancing and flexible baseload as well as CHP

Wärtsilä 50SG gas engine

49.9% efficiency 50.0% efficiency | 30 sec power to grid

Perfect for reducing power plant footprint
Up to 54% efficiency with Flexicycle™ solution
Ideal for balancing and flexible baseload

Wärtsilä 50DF dual fuel engine

49.4% efficiency 49.3% efficiency | 30 sec power to grid

Provides fuel flexibility and smaller power plant footprint
Up to 54% efficiency with Flexicycle™ solution
Ideal for balancing and flexible baseload

This is how we've helped our customers

PLTD Pesanggaran, Bali

Grid stability in Indonesia – 200MW multi-fuel power plant generating reliable electricity in Bali with operational and fuel flexibility.
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Yamama Cement, Saudi Arabia

When Saudi Arabia announced the Saudi 2030 Vision in 2016, Yamama Cement Company turned to Wärtsilä for a solution that would be in accordance with the vision's regulations requiring more efficient power usage. As Yamama Cement Company started negotiations with Wärtsilä in 2014, it compared the viability of using gas turbines with Wärtsiläs internal combustion engine (ICE) technology – ultimately favouring ICE.
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