Japanese power utility Tohoku Electric has unveiled its Plan for Development of Power Sources 2014-2023, which includes 3.7 GW of new power projects, depending on the circumstances of the resumption of operations of nuclear reactors. The company is considering a 1,385 MW nuclear project, Higashi Dori-2 (in partnership with TEPCO). It is also developing three large thermal power projects, including the 980 MW Shin-Sendai-3 CCGT project in Miyagi, whose construction started in November 2011 and which is scheduled to be commissioned in December 2015 (first half) and completed in July 2016. Tohoku Electric is also developing two 600 MW thermal projects, based on coal (Noshiro-3, construction to start in 2016 and commissioning planned in 2020) and on gas (Joetsu-1, with construction starting in 2019 and commissioning in 2023). The group will also increase the capacity of the Hachinohe-5 thermal plant, upgrading the plant to combined cycle (+120 MW to 394 MW) in August 2014 and shifting the unit from light oil to LNG in July 2015 (+22 MW to 416 MW). Finally, Tohoku Electric will commission about 13 MW of small-hydropower capacity by 2016 and 1.3 MW of solar capacity by 2016.
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