Japanese power producer and wholesaler Soma Kyodo Power has today restarted the 1GW No.2 coal-fired power unit at its Shinchi complex.
The unit was forced to shut automatically on 22 September because of a failure related to electrical equipment and it took some time to investigate the cause, conduct a check-up and the repairs, said Soma Kyodo, a 50:50 joint venture between utilities Jera and Tohoku Electric Power. The No.2 unit was originally scheduled to restart operations on 6 December.
The electricity reserve levels in the Tohoku area is 20.83pc at 4:30-5pm Japan time (7:30-8am GMT) on 28 November after the restart of the No.2 unit.
Shinchi has two 1GW coal-fired units, which typically consume around 4.5mn t/yr of coal.
