TBEA Wins $36 Million Transformer Equipment Order for Liaoning Nuclear Plant

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Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--TBEA Shenyang Transformers Company (Shenyang, Liaoning), a subsidiary of Tebian Electric Apparatus Company Limited (SHA:600089) (TBEA) (Changji, Xinjiang), has signed a $36 million contract with China Nuclear Power Engineering Company (Shenzhen, China), a subsidiary of China Guangdong Nuclear Power Corporation (Shenzhen), to develop transmission and distribution equipment for Phase I of the Liaoning Hongyanhe Nuclear Power Station, TBEA announced on November 25. China Nuclear Power will be the project's general contractor.

According to the contract, TBEA will research, develop and manufacture 13 sets of 500-kilovolt main power transformers for four 1,000-megawatt (MW) nuclear power units for Phase I. Equipment will be delivered from July 30, 2010 to June 30, 2012. The project is another step for the company in developing nuclear power equipment independently, contributing to the localization of nuclear-power-equipment manufacture, TBEA said.

The plant is the first nuclear power station approved to begin construction China's Eleventh Five-Year Plan and also the first nuclear power station in northeastern China. The four units in Phase I will adopt China Guangdong Nuclear's CPR1000 technology. Liaoning Hongyanhe Nuclear Power Company Limited (LHNP) (Dalian, China), another subsidiary of China Guangdong Nuclear, will serve as the project owner and be responsible for the construction and operation. A contract for key equipment for the project was awarded in March 2008. Work began on units 1 and 2 in August 2007, and March 2008, respectively. The first unit is scheduled to go into commercial operation in 2012, and all four units are expected to put into operation in 2014.

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