GE and KAPES win over $100m contract from South Korea electric utility

Korea Electrical Energy Company (KEPCO) has awarded a contract value greater than $100m to GE Renewable Power’s Grid Options enterprise and a KEPCO-GE three way partnership, KAPES.

Below the contract, GE and KAPES shall be accountable for the supply of a 500MW back-to-back voltage sourced converter (VSC) excessive voltage direct present (HVDC) hyperlink in Incheon, South Korea.

Situated in Incheon, the Shin-bupyeong mission has been designed to strengthen the electrical grid system and relieve the overload and overvoltage circumstances within the congested space.

It’s stated to be the GE and the KAPES consortium’s first mission within the nation to make use of VSC, the brand new HVDC know-how connects AC techniques and has ‘extremely specialised’ energy electronics.

GE acknowledged that the know-how permits for elevated energy, improved operational functionality, and frequency management in comparison with the Line Commutated Converter (LLC) know-how.

Inside the final decade, South Korea has skilled roughly 35% progress in vitality consumption and is alleged to be one of many largest vitality shoppers on this planet.

GE famous that the Shin-bupyeong mission shall be essential to offering speedy energetic energy movement controls.

KAPES and GE Grid Options may even be accountable for offering the whole engineering design for the VSC HVDC system as a part of the turnkey mission.

They may even oversee the manufacturing, procurement and supply of the tools, set up in addition to commissioning of the system.

The core tools for the mission is deliberate to be manufactured at GE’s websites in Italy, Brazil, France and the US, with set up anticipated to start in 2024.

GE Grid Options’ grid integration chief Johan Bindele stated: “The Shin-bupyeong mission is our fifth VSC mission on this planet, demonstrating that our know-how is now effectively established and that we now have the flexibility to commercially ship on this newest and most superior HVDC know-how.

“GE and KEPCO proceed to bolster the worth of the KAPES three way partnership. Previous to this contract award, GE signed to ship greater than 7.5GW of energy via a number of HVDC tasks in South Korea, together with 7GW with KAPES.”