Thermal Power Plants

Since producing our first steam turbine in 1959, Fuji Electric has manufactured more than 464 steam turbines having a total combined output capacity that exceeds 23,619 MW, and has delivered these turbines to various countries throughout the world. In the industrial sector, Fuji Electric shipped Japan's first supercritical, pure transformation plant in 1973, achieving higher operating efficiency than ever before. This has become the mainstream type of thermal power plant in Japan. Among medium capacity generators, Fuji has also produced and delivered the world's largest class 162 MW single-cylinder steam turbines. In the geothermal power sector, Fuji delivered the first commercial facility in Japan in 1960, and boasts a successful track record of producing generators that exceed 1,661 MW, such as the largest class of 110,000 kW generators. Fuji Electric is counted as one of the leading thermal power equipment manufacturers in the world. Cover photo: Thermal power generation in Japan has been affected by the slowdown in demand for electric power and the decline in electric utility rates, and power companies have dramatically curtailed their investment in plants and equipment. IPP power generation has also fallen, and a 1970s-like boom in power generation for private use is not expected. Overseas in countries such as China, India and Brazil, however, the potential for future growth is seen as large, and the construction of new power plants brisk. As part of this trend toward supplying plants and equipment overseas , the cover photo shows Ireland's West Offaly Power Station, which was delivered as a full-fledged coal-fired thermal power plant. The design has cleared the preliminary safety protocols common to both Europe and North America, and is a model of the power plant technology to be constructed overseas in the future. Also shown on the cover is a compact-size, non-reheating turbine, for which rapid growth is anticipated in the overseas markets.