Toshiba to equip Nam Ou 4 plant, Laos

Toshiba to equip Nam Ou 4 plant, Laos

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."

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John Diecker
APT Consulting Group Co., Ltd.

www.aptthailand.com