The Korea Bizwire
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South Korea has begun commercial operations of a power plant installed with the country’s first homegrown gas turbine, its operator said Monday.
Korea Western Power (KOWEPO) said it began operating the Gimpo Combined Heat and Power Plant in the city of Gimpo, west of Seoul, on Friday.
The plant is equipped with a 270-megawatt indigenous gas turbine developed by local power plant equipment maker Doosan Enerbility Co.
The state-run power firm successfully developed the first homegrown gas turbine with Doosan and other private firms in 2019 after six years of work, becoming the world’s fifth nation to secure a major gas turbine of its own after the United States, Japan, Germany and Italy.
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