Harbin Electric Signs $150 Million Contract to Supply Turbine Generating Units for Project in Jilin, China

Researched by Industrial Info Resources China (Beijing, China)--Harbin Electric Machinery Company Limited (HEMC) (Harbin, Heilongjiang), a subsidiary of Harbin Electric Corporation (Harbin, Heilongjiang), signed a contract to supply hydraulic turbine generating units and manufacture associated equipment for the Fengman Hydropower Station, according to an announcement from Harbin Electric on June 13, 2014. The contract was signed with State Grid Xinyuan Holding Company Limited (Beijing) on June 9. It had a total value of $150 million.

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According to the contract, Harbin Electric will supply six sets of vertical Francis hydraulic turbine generating units, including associated common and support equipment, such as governors, exciters, hydraulic mechanical auxiliary equipment, an isolated phase busbar (IPB), generator breakers, a condition monitoring system, a computer control system, and a replay protection system.

The delivery time for the initial stage of the turbine's embedded parts is February 2015, the expected commissioning date for the first unit will be August 2018, and the commissioning intervals for the five remaining units will be two months each.

The Fengman Hydropower Station, located in the middle stream of the Songhuajiang River in Jilin City, in northeastern China's Jilin province, is the first large-scale hydropower project built on the mainstream of the Songhuajiang River. Construction of the plant kicked off in 1937, with the first unit commissioned in 1943.

After three phases of expansion, the power now has 12 units with a total installed capacity of 1,002.5 megawatts (MW): eight units with a total installed capacity of 552.5 MW built in Phase I; two 85-MW units built in Phase II; and two 140-MW units built in Phase III.

The reconstruction scheme plans to construct a new concrete dam 120 meters downstream of the existing dam to support a new powerhouse with six hydraulic turbine generating units, each of 200 MW, and to keep the two 140-MW units built in Phase III of the original dam with a total investment of about $1.5 billion. The total installed capacity of the power station will be expanded to 1,480 MW upon completion of the reconstruction project.

Lu Zhengang, the chief engineer of State Grid Xinyuan, and Qiu Xiliang, the president of HEMC, signed the contracts on behalf of both parties.

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