Emerson Awarded Automation Contract to Modernize 100 Hydroelectric Turbine Generators in Ukraine
Monday, August 16, 2010
UkrHydroEnergo, the main hydroelectric generating company
of Ukraine, has awarded Emerson Process Management a $28 million contract for
automation systems to manage and control 100 turbine generators in nine
hydroelectric power plants.
The contract is part of UkrHydroEnergo’s Hydropower
Rehabilitation Project to upgrade and modernize the series of eight plants that
were built between 1939 and 1975 and make up the Dnieper River energy cascade,
plus the Dnestrovskaya hydroelectric power plant that was built in 1983 on the
Dniester River watershed. Funding is
being provided by a loan from the World Bank to the government of Ukraine. More…
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