Dispelling concerns about its quality, the turbine has been running well without a glitch for almost one year, helping the power plant to delivers power to 380,000 nearby households.“We’d expected a few glitches at the machine, the first domestically produced gas turbine we used,” Eom Kyung-il, vice president of KOWEPO told reporters touring the plant.“It has now proved its performance and safety.”KOWEPO, a unit of Korea Electric Power Corp., is set to complete its verification of the gas turbine after 8,000 hours of operation at the end of next month.
It has recently inked supply deals with domestic power companies, including a 580-billion-won contract it signed with Korea Midland Power Co.in July.“Our energy efficiency, including output, is still lower than that of the Big Three, but we’re catching up quickly,” said a Doosan Enerbility official.“As gas turbines are in short supply worldwide, we expect the demand for our products will increase,” he added.
Doosan Enerbility Co., a leading power plant engineering company in South Korea, has defied doubters about its gas turbines, the first of its kind produced at home, proving its performance and safety at a local power plant.
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