Yokogawa has received an order from Hitachi, Ltd. (Hitachi) to supply a Distributed Control System (DCS) for the Uralsk Heat Power Station, a 25 MW gas-fired co-generation facility located in the West-Kazakhstan region of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

The plant is being upgraded as an energy saving model project through the joint efforts of the Kazakhstan government and the New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO) of Japan. The overall aim of this project is the introduction of Japanese energy-saving technologies to a developing country and the promotion of these technologies by demonstrating their effectiveness at a plant site.

Tohoku Electric Power Co., Inc., a major electricity power company in Japan, is entrusted with the overall responsibility for this project, as part of which the existing co-generation system will be replaced with a new facility that uses a highly efficient Hitachi H-25 gas turbine and heat recovery steam generator (HRSG) to improve the plant's generating efficiency. Yokogawa will supply its latest DCS, the CENTUM CS 3000 R3, and this will control the plant's HRSG. It is to be delivered by the end of March 2004.

This is the third time Hitachi has awarded Yokogawa a contract to supply a DCS for a power generation facility equipped with the Hitachi H-25 gas turbine. This latest success is based on Yokogawa's proven capability to provide a total solution from engineering to local support.

Yokogawa continues to pursue and implement solutions that serve the worldwide power market by bringing together the company's global resources and industry know-how.