Mitsubishi Power to renovate Taiwanese CCGT
Mitsubishi Power, a unit of Japan’s Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI), has won a contract from Taiwan’s state-owned Taiwan Power Company for a renovation project of power generation equipment at the Datan power plant in the city of Taoyuan, MHI said on July 5.
The contract covers a total of four-unit of combined cycle gas turbine (CCGT) power plant (unit 3 to unit 6), comprising a total of eight gas turbines. The aim of the renovation project is to reduce emissions of nitrogen oxide (NOx) while maintaining generating capacity. Completion is scheduled for 2025.
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The Datan power plant is a natural gas-fired power plant located approximately 50 km west of Taipei. It has a total of 20 gas turbines including units 8 and 9, currently under construction. Once all facilities are completed and operational, the plant will have a total combined output of approximately 7 GW. Mitsubishi Power has supplied 14 of these gas turbines, for units 1 to 6.
The six turbines for units 1 and 2 are M501F models, and the remaining eight are M501G models. This project covers the M501G models, with work conducted on each unit in succession.