The Tauhara Geothermal Energy Station in New Zealand (supply: Sumitomo Company)
With the handover of the 184-MW Tauhara Geothermal Energy Plant, Japan-based Sumitomo has contributed to 17% of the worldwide put in geothermal energy capability.
In June 2024, Sumitomo Company (Sumitomo) formally introduced the contractual hand-over of the Tauhara Geothermal Energy Station in New Zealand to Contact Vitality. With this achievement, the overall put in capability of geothermal energy vegetation that Sumitomo has contributed to with development and provide providers has reached 2700 MW, or roughly 17% of the overall international put in geothermal energy capability.
The Tauhara Geothermal Energy Station has a producing capability of 184 MW, equal to the annual electrical energy consumption of roughly 200,000 households and about 3.5% of New Zealand’s complete electrical energy era. It holds the excellence of being the world’s largest single-shaft geothermal steam turbine generator. Building of the Energy Station started on February 2021 and was accomplished 41 days sooner than the contract deadline, regardless of the influence of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Sumitomo is the primary Japanese firm to be contracted for the engineering, procurement, and development of a geothermal energy plant in New Zealand, which was the Kawerau Geothermal Energy Plant in 2008. The corporate had then been concerned in two extra tasks, each of which have been accomplished forward of schedule, together with the Nga Awa Purua Geothermal Energy Plant, accomplished in 2010.
These achievements have been made doable by Sumitomo Company’s international experience in energy plant development and over 40 years of collaboration with Fuji Electrical Co., Ltd., a number one producer of steam generators for geothermal energy vegetation.
Contact Vitality had since accomplished a 30-day check run of the Tauhara Geothermal Energy Station with the plant operating constantly at 152 MW. The facility plant has began supplying renewable electrical energy to the grid at a decreased capability of 130 MW whereas the ultimate levels of commissioning are nonetheless ongoing.
Supply: Sumitomo Company
