| Project Detail |
Located in Ama-gun, Aichi, Japan, Nishi-Nagoya Thermal power plant is owned by Chubu Electric Power. In 2010, the company decided to refurbish the 40-year-old power station in order to reduce the quantity of fuel consumed, which approximates to 0.4 million tons (Mt), and to curb the CO2 emissions, which amounted to roughly 1.4Mt. The plant is now being replaced with a cleaner and more efficient power-generating facility. Units 1-4 at the plant were decommissioned in November 2013 for the same, while units 5 and 6 were decommissioned earlier between 2002 and 2003. The dismantling of Units 1-4 paves the way to install a new set of two natural gas-fired combined-cycle units designated 7-1 and 7-2, together known as Group No 7. The refurbishment and construction works began in January 2014. The unit 7-2 became operational in September 2017, while the other unit is expected to be operational in 2018. The refurbished plant will have a capacity to supply more than 2.2GW of power to the grid, which is equivalent to powering 400,000 average homes in Japan. |
