JFE Engineering to build small 1.5 MW binary plant in Kagoshima, Japan
Landscape in Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan (source: flickr/ David McKelvey, creative commons)
Alexander Richter
20 Feb 2013
Japanese JFE Engineering won an order for a 1.5 MW binary cycle geothermal plant to be built in Kagoshima prefecture, Japan. The binary cycle unit will be from Ormat Technologies.
This morning, Bloomberg reports that Japanese JFE Engineering Corp. (subsidiary of JFE Holdings Inc.) “has won an order for building a 1.5 MW (1,500 kW) binary geothermal plant with a turbine to be provided by Ormat Technologies.
In 2010, Ormat and JFE signed a cooperation agreement for services in Japan, as reported by Ormat back in June 2010. Ormat is represented in Japan by Itochu. The cooperation agreement signed aims to implement geothermal power plant projects in Japan on an Engineering Procurement and Construction basis utilizing Ormat’s proprietary binary cycle geothermal plants.
The project is developed by Medipolis Energy (Shin Nippon Biomedical Laboratories). The overall cost of the project is estimated $13 million and is expected to start operating in the fall of 2014. The project is located in Kagoshima prefecture.
This clearly is only a drop in the ocean, but will be a start for hopefully further geothermal development in Japan.
Source: Bloomberg
