As a trusted partner, having worked with Drax since 1997, Capula had completed 80% of the control system upgrades at Drax as part of an ongoing comprehensive upgrade pathway to deliver modern, powerful and flexible control platforms.
Having successfully delivered the control system upgrade programme for the first two units to time sensitive outage challenges of 53 and 60 days respectively, Capula was selected to upgrade the control system at Unit 3.
In continuing to deliver a programme that ensures more modern, powerful and flexible control platforms, Capula continue to support Drax to deliver further operational improvements. Drax has already identified further equipment upgrades, including the installation of a more efficient Siemens HP Barrel Turbine on Unit 1, this follows successful conversions with supporting control system modifications on both Units 2 and 3 which were delivered by Capula.