Toshiba Corporation’s Chinese subsidiary Toshiba Hydro Power (Hangzhou) Co (THPC) is to supply three sets of 44MW generating equipment for the Nam Ou 4 hydropower plant in Luang Phabang Province, Laos.
The major order was from Power China Resources Ltd., one of China’s biggest power generation companies, and the equipment including first five-blade bulb water turbine will be designed and manufactured by THPC.
Equipment delivery will start in March 2018, and the new plant is scheduled to start commercial operation in 2020.
Toshiba installed its first hydropower system in Laos in 2010 and its supply record to date, including Nam Ngum 2, Nam Ngiep 2 and Nam Ou 5, is nine hydroelectric turbines and generators with total capacity of 1000MW.
“Since its first shipment of a 60kW hydroelectric generator to Japan’s Keage Power Plant in 1894, Toshiba Group has built up a long track record of providing more than 2,000 units with a total capacity of more than 58GW worldwide, including the Philippines, Vietnam, Laos, Malaysia, Thailand and Myanmar,” commented Takao Konishi, Vice President of the Thermal & Hydro Power Systems & Services Div. in Toshiba’s Energy Systems & Solutions Company. “With experience and technology shaped by this history, Toshiba will strengthen its efforts to support Laos’ plan to increase hydro power generation by delivering cost-effective, high performance hydro power products.”
