■ Holds groundbreaking ceremony to build HVDC Busan Plant, for total investment of 105.6 billion won
■ To complete plant in next year’s first half; seen to complete full lineup of low to high-voltage AC/CD power facilities
■ Busan Plant to secure HVDC total solutions along with transformers for conversion
■ HVDC essential to Smart Grid era; company to cultivate HVDC as core pillar of green business
LS Industrial Systems (LSIS) will construct Korea’s first production base for High Voltage Direct Current Transmission Systems (HVDC).
LSIS announced on September 14 that it had held a groundbreaking ceremony to kick off the construction of its HVDC plant at the Hwajeon Industrial Complex in the Busan-Jinhae Free Economic Zone. In attendance were more than 100 dignitaries and guests, including LSIS Vice Chairman& CEO Ja-kyun Koo, and officials from the Busan Metropolitan City government and the construction industry.
The HVDC plant, which will be armed with extensive testing facilities, will be completed in next year’s first half. With a combined investment of 105.6 billion won, the plant will become Korea’s first production site exclusively dedicated to HVDC.
In his welcome remarks, LSIS Vice Chairman Ja-kyun Koo said, “HVDC is regarded as ‘the culmination of power transmission technology,’ and constitutes a revolutionary technology that will dramatically change future transmission methods. When the plant is completed, LSIS will have completed a full lineup of AC and CD power facilities ranging from low to high voltages.” He went on to say, “If core items of equipment for HVDC are rolled out here, this plant will come to secure the capacity to provide total solutions for HVDC systems, along with transformers for conversion that will be produced at the high-voltage transformer plant at Busan Works.
Vice Chairman Koo also said, “We expect that the new plant will generate massive synergistic effect, since it is being constructed at a site near Busan Plant for the production of high-voltage transformers at Busan Works, which was completed in last April,” adding, “In order to ensure that LSIS and Busan continue their march towards becoming a global enterprise and a global city, we will cultivate the Busan HVDC Plant into the best HVDC production base in the world.”
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