Vietnam: Trung Son Hydro Power Station starts operations with Toshiba hydropower systems

Vietnam: 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.

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oshiba-hydropower-systems.html

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John Diecker
APT Consulting Group Co., Ltd.

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