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Solvay, Ansaldo Energia and Marubeni have formed a joint venture to invest in an energy efficiency project at Solvay's facility in Rosignano, Italy.
The three partners will finance and operate a new 180 MW gas turbine and a re-powered plant which has a total capacity of 350 MW and total steam production capacity of 410 t/h, Solvay said in a statement.
“This project will allow the plant to be competitively supplied in steam while reducing its environmental impacts thanks to the most efficient technology based on natural gas” it said.
“Solvay Energy Services, Marubeni and Ansaldo Energia join their complementary know-how aiming to improve the plant’s energy and environmental management at limited costs and to accompany its energy transition” it said.
Solvay had announced earlier in December that it was to invest in a new energy-efficient gas turbine at its soda ash plant in Rosignano, Italy in order to “secure the plant’s current production capacity and long-term competitiveness on local and export markets.”