MHI has commenced onsite rehabilitation work on the No.5 unit at the Tula Power Plant (official name: Francisco Perez Rios). MHI received the order from Mexico's Comision Federal de Electricidad (CFE) in May 2004.

The Tula Power Plant is located in the Tula district in the state of Hidalgo, about 100 kilometers north of Mexico City. The No.5 unit is an oil/gas-fired power station built in 1982 by MHI, based on a full-turnkey contract that included a turbine and boiler.

MHI received an order for the large scale rehabilitation work to repair and upgrade a wide range of equipment, including the boiler, turbine, control system and cooling tower, which had deteriorated over many years of operation. The new equipment had already been manufactured, and installation work has commenced recently. The work is on schedule to hand over the refurbished unit as contracted.

To date, MHI has supplied power plants to CFE, collectively providing to more than 50% of the electricity provider's total output. MHI has delivered on the construction of these plants to contract, and for this rehabilitation work as well, MHI will strive to enhance customer satisfaction by proposing optimized retrofit plan as an original supplier, from the perspective of the client.

The No.5 boiler on which onsite work has begun