Seobu Power Launches Era of Korean-Style Gas Combined Cycle Power Generation
Park Hyung-deok, President of Western Power, is delivering a commemorative speech at the groundbreaking ceremony for the installation of the Korean-type gas turbine held at the Gimpo Combined Heat and Power Plant on the 5th.
View original image[Asia Economy Sejong=Reporter Dongwoo Lee] Korea Western Power announced on the 6th that it has begun installing a Korean-type gas turbine, developed for the first time in Korea, at the Gimpo Combined Heat and Power Plant located in Yangchon-eup, Gimpo-si, Gyeonggi-do.
Western Power has been working to secure a Korean model to break away from gas combined power generation dependent on overseas technology. Since 2013, it has been jointly developing power generation gas turbine technology through a public-private partnership, and in December 2020, it started constructing the Gimpo Combined Heat and Power Plant where the gas turbine will be installed.
The Gimpo Combined Heat and Power Plant plans to install a 270 MW-class gas turbine independently developed by Doosan Enerbility. It is a G-class turbine capable of withstanding high temperatures above 1500 degrees Celsius. Adding a 225 MW-class steam turbine, the total capacity of the Gimpo Combined Heat and Power Plant reaches 495 MW. The electricity and heat produced here will be supplied to approximately 500,000 households and 80,000 households in the nearby area.
Western Power will connect the system and conduct on-site verification for two years from the completion date in July 2023 to July 2025 after installing and commissioning the gas turbine. If the verification is successfully completed, Korea will become the fifth country in the world, following the United States, Germany, Japan, and Italy, to possess technology for designing, manufacturing, operating, and servicing large-scale power generation gas turbines.
Since the Gimpo Combined Heat and Power Plant has a high utilization rate as a distributed power source for gas combined power generation, Western Power plans to promote overseas exports of Korean-type gas combined power plants in the future.
About 100 officials attended the installation commencement ceremony held the day before, including Moon Seung-wook, Minister of Trade, Industry and Energy; Jung Ha-young, Mayor of Gimpo; Park Hyung-duk, President of Western Power; as well as representatives from Korea Electric Power Technology, responsible for design services, and Doosan Enerbility, the turbine manufacturer.
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President Park Hyung-duk said, “The Gimpo Combined Heat and Power Plant, which will open the era of Korean-type gas combined power generation for the first time in Korea, will serve as a cornerstone for improving the performance and developing operational technology of domestically produced standard gas combined power plants.” He added, “The establishment of Korean-type gas combined power plants is expected to revitalize the domestic power generation industry ecosystem.”
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