French-headquartered Alstom has been awarded a contract worth around €13 million from Electricity of Vietnam for the extension project of the Thac Mo 75 MW hydropower plant in Vietnam.
The aim of the project is to increase peak load capacity to support the existing 150 MW Thac Mo power station with 75MW of additional power.
Alstom’s scope of the contract includes design, manufacturing, testing, supply, erection and commissioning of electro-mechanical equipment consisting of one vertical Francis turbine of 75 MW, generator, control systems and electrical balance-of-plant equipment.
Jerome Pécresse, President of Alstom Renewable Power said:
“This project showcases our technological leadership in the hydro sector and reaffirms the confidence that our customers have in our ability to deliver world class products and solutions in different regions and geographies.”
The main turbines and generators will be manufactured at Alstom’s state-of-the-art Vadodara facility in Gujarat India, one of the company’s largest hydro manufacturing hubs worldwide.
Electrical and mechanical balance-of-plant items will be supplied from various countries including Vietnam.
The existing Thac Mo power station has two 75 MW Francis type turbines and was commissioned in 1995. It supplies power to the national grid of EVN covering the southern part of Vietnam.
The French company also provided 16 of its 700MW Francis turbines for the Three Gorges Dam project in China, which has 22,500MW of installed capacity. The 16 sets could produce enough energy in an hour to power nearly 75,000 average US households for a month.
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