Wärtsilä leads the transition towards a 100% renewable energy future. We help our partners to accelerate their decarbonisation journeys through our market-leading technologies and power system modelling expertise. These cover decarbonisation services, future-fuel enabled balancing power plants, hybrid solutions, energy storage and optimisation technology, including the GEMS Digital Energy Platform. Wärtsilä’s lifecycle services are designed to increase efficiency, promote reliability and guarantee operational performance. Our track record comprises 79 GW of power plant capacity, of which 18 GW are under service agreements, and over 125 energy storage systems, in 180 countries around the world.
"In the event of a natural disaster such as an earthquake, these engines can switch fuels without a hiccup."-Joe Griffith, MEA General Manager
PIONEERS POWERING PALMER AT -40°F / -40°C
Matanuska Electric Association (MEA), departed from conventional practice and decided to build its own power plant. For its clients in the Alaskan Railbelt this meant greatly reducing the costs of its supplied energy.
Having considered different technology proposals, including gas turbine-based projects, MEA’s consulting engineers decided that Wärtsilä’s 50DF combustion engines offered the best solution for the project. According to MEA General Manager Joe Griffith, “these engines represent a technology of substantial importance to the Railbelt electrical system”.
| Type | Wärtsilä 50DF multi-fuel power plant |
| Operating mode | Flexible baseload |
| Gensets | 10 x W18V50DF |
| Total output | 171 MW |
| Fuel | Natural gas & LFO |
| Scope | EEQ (Engineering & equipment) |
| Delivered | 2014 |
If you want to know more about the Eklutna project, please contact
Dennis Finn
Business Development Manager
Wärtsilä Power Plants
+1 410 336 8762
