Aggreko comes to Japan’s power aid
AGGREKO said it has signed a deal with the operator of the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan to supply emergency power.
The Glasgow firm will supply 200 megawatts of both gas and diesel-fired power to Tokyo Electric Power Company Incorporated (Tepco) for a minimum one-year term from June. The power plants will be installed at sites in the Tokyo Bay area and will help sustain the electricity supply to consumers and businesses hit by last month’s devastating earthquake and tsunami.
Aggreko’s international power arm serves utilities, governments, armed forces and major industrial customers with power plants ranging from 10MW to 100MW on a single site. The company, which did not reveal the value of the contract, has already started to move the power generation equipment to the stricken country.