Trung Son Hydro Power Station starts operations with Toshiba hydropower systems
Trung Son Hydro Power Station starts operations with Toshiba hydropower systems
Toshiba Corporation announced that all hydro turbines and generators of units 1 to 4 at Trung Son Hydro Power Station have started commercial operation.
The 260 MW plant is owned by Trung Son Hydropower Company, a unit of Electricity of Vietnam. The project was financed by the World Bank’s first loan to Vietnam, as it combines drought and flood control with electricity supply.
THPC, Toshiba’s Chinese subsidiary for the manufacturing, sales, and maintenance of hydroelectric equipment, received the equipment supply order from Trung Son Hydropower Company in August 2013, as a member of a consortium with HydroChina Corporation. It was the company’s first order in Vietnam, won by positive evaluations of THPC's technology and the reliability of its equipment.
Commenting on the successful deployment, Takao Konishi, vice president of the Thermal & Hydro Power Systems & Services Division of Toshiba Corporation's Energy Systems & Solutions Company, said: “Toshiba has over 120 years of experience in delivering high-quality hydropower systems for projects around the world, and THPC has drawn on this deep know-how and our technological advantages in hydropower generation to achieve advanced capabilities."
"We are also very pleased to support Vietnam in meeting its fast rising energy demand, and will continue to provide support as the Vietnamese economy continues to grow,” he said.
In Vietnam, hydropower plants account for about half of the total installed generating capacity of 34GW. The government is responding to growing demand with an expansion plan that will raise capacity to 75GW by 2020 and to 146.8GW by 2030.
Toshiba installed its first hydropower system in Vietnam in 1964, and its record to date includes 10 turbines and six generators for hydroelectric power plants.
