Wärtsilä Corporation - Provider of Decentralized Power Generation

Wärtsilä is a leading supplier of flexible power plants for the decentralized power generation market. Wärtsilä power plants, for power generation only or combined heat and power generation, range in size from 1MW up to hundreds of megawatts.

The power plants are based on single or multiple engines from Wärtsilä's range of reciprocating engines. These engines offer the large advantage of fuel flexibility since they have the ability to run on a wide range of gases and oils, even liquid biofuel. The engines can also be converted from one fuel to another. Wärtsilä reciprocating engines provide an interesting and competitive alternative to the conventional model of centralized power plants.

Wärtsilä has extensive experience in the design, building and turnkey supply of power plants, executing over 100 power plant projects each year. At the beginning of 2009, Wärtsilä had more than 40GW of power installed in power plants in 165 countries around the world.

Flexible baseload power plants

Wärtsilä flexible baseload power plants cater to the needs of utilities and independent power producers (IPPs). With Wärtsilä's operations and management services, the customer can enjoy peace of mind. Even in the most challenging locations – in city centres, remote regions of developing countries, distant islands, and in places with extreme climates, and other places considered too challenging for other forms of power generation, Wärtsilä can offer the right solution.

Grid stability and peaking power plants

Wärtsilä grid stability and peaking power plants can supply electricity to the transmission grid when demand for electricity – and therefore prices – are at their highest.

Peaking plant sizes up to 200MWe and above have been found ideal for the IPP and energy service company markets. Power plants with low production costs and a minimal environmental impact will always be dispatched first and disengaged last, creating more revenues for their operators.

Wärtsilä standby power plants are well suited for power station blackstarts, data co-location centres, airports and large industrial standby applications. Wärtsilä is also deeply committed to furthering the usage of renewable power sources.

Industrial self-generation engines

Integrability, flexibility, outstanding plant efficiency as well as around-the-clock service are essential considerations for industries that depend on reliable, decentralized power generation.

Wärtsilä engines are designed for continuous operation and they can run in island mode or parallel with the grid, depending on the operational demand. The plants are built up from single and multi-engine units, fulfilling different industrial requirements for the production of both electricity and combined heat and power.

Wärtsilä power plants offer ideal power generation solutions for example for the mining industry, cement manufacturing, the textile industry, food processing, municipalities and many others.

Engines for powering the oil and gas industry

The Wärtsilä engines offer uncompromised multi-fuel capability and a fully competitive output / weight ratio, high efficiency and good tolerance to variations in fuel quality. In addition, they provide absolute reliability with no costly downtime or interruptions in power generation during fuel changes. Combining reliability with top performance and outstanding total economy, Wärtsilä offers a power solution for every phase of oil and gas exploration, production, transportation and refining, both onshore and offshore.

The oil and gas industry has one outstanding advantage. The fuel is right there – in the ground. The obvious solution is to use the same crude oil or natural gas to run the engines. Wärtsilä engines run smoothly on crude oil and gas or as dual-fuel versions for optimum flexibility.

Wärtsilä offers state-of-the-art prime movers, complete power, pump and process packages, EPC deliveries and lifetime support solutions to maximize your revenue and to minimize downtime.