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| July 5, 2000 No.0894 | ||
| MHI RECEIVES HONGKONG ELECTRIC ORDER FOR UPGRADING EXISTING POWER GENERATION UNITS TO GAS TURBINE COMBINED CYCLE POWER |
| Tokyo, July 5, 2000 -- Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI), jointly with Mitsubishi Corporation and Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, has received an order from Hongkong Electric Co., Ltd. (HEC) to convert two existing gas turbine power generation units into a gas turbine combined cycle (GTCC) power generation system. The two gas turbines were installed by MHI in 1990 at HEC's Lamma Power Station and have helped the facility cope with peak demand. |
| MHI has delivered six gas turbines to HEC in the past and each has been operated as an independent system. Two of them will be used for this project. A steam turbine and two heat recovery steam generators will be added to the units to create a GTCC power generation system. The GTCC system, which is scheduled to go online in June 2002, will continuously serve periods of peak demand. The existing two gas turbines have a capacity to generate 250 MW in total. The GTCC system, which utilizes waste heat from gas turbines, will enable 360 MW power output while consuming a similar amount of fuel. The order was awarded to MHI based on its track record of successful deliveries to HEC in the past, in addition to the economy and reliability of the system based on MHI's advanced GTCC power generation technologies. Since the delivery of the No. 3 and No. 4 thermal power generation units at Ap Lei Chau Power Station, which were completed in 1972, MHI has supplied 15 steam turbines, 16 boilers and 6 gas turbines to HEC. When the GTCC system is completed, HEC's Lamma Power Station will be able to supply 2,500 MW by coal-fired power generation and 860 MW by gas turbine power generation through the equipment provided by MHI. That equipment will enable approximately 98% of HEC's power output , which is equivalent to over 30% of the electrical demand in Hong Kong. # # #
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