Turbines | Refurb and rework
Turbine manufacturers have been active across most continents, carrying out extensive modernisation and equipping new hydro facilities. IWP&DC finds out more
Right: Voith Hydro recently unveiled its newest, multi- million-dollar HBM during a ribbon cutting ceremony at its York manufacturing plant in the US. From left to right: Livia Shmavonian, Made in America, Director, Office of Management and Budget; Stanley Kocon, President & CEO, Voith Hydro North America; Michael Rendsburg, Chief Operating Officer, Voith Hydro
Below: The Kwanza River in Angola. Photo by Voith
VOITH HYDRO RECENTLY UNVEILED its new US$5 million, 200-ton PAMA horizontal boring mill (HBM) for manufacturing hydropower equipment at in its Pennsylvania plant. Described as one of the most advanced machines of its type to be installed in North America, the company says the HBM will be used to machine components crucial to the operations of the region’s hydro facilities. As Stanley Kocon, President and CEO of Voith
Hydro North America said: “This investment enhances our capabilities in hydropower manufacturing and demonstrates our commitment to being a part of the clean energy economy.” Voith Hydro can trace its roots in Pennsylvania back nearly 150 years and today the manufacturing facility is home to almost 350 hydropower professionals. It is
also one of the largest, dedicated hydropower turbine equipment manufacturing facilities in the world, and the only hydropower manufacturing facility in North America with a hydraulic test lab and a dedicated staff of engineers designing, fabricating, and refurbishing hydroelectric equipment. Voith has also been working in Angola where it supplied all electrical and mechanical equipment for the Caculo Cabaça hydropower plant on the Kwanza River. Here the company supplied all electrical and mechanical equipment, including the installation of four Francis turbines with an output of 530MW each, and an additional Francis turbine with an output of 52MW. Caculo Cabaça is set to be connected to the
Angolan grid with a total capacity of 2172MW before the decade is out, and following commissioning of the power plant, around two-thirds of the country’s energy will come from hydropower. “We are absolutely delighted to be contributing to this milestone project on the African continent,” says Dr. Toralf Haag, Voith Group CEO. In Angola, the company is already a familiar name
due to its supply of equipment for the Cambambe I and Cambambe II hydropower facilities. In this context, the training of local skilled workers has always played a vital role and at Caculo Cabaça, a six-stage training concept has been developed for regional workers, which also provides for the operation of a training centre in Angola. With a huge but as yet untapped hydropower
potential, existing electricity supply currently only reaches around half the population in Angola. And this project is described as being a milestone for a country on its journey to a broader and more stable energy supply for society and industry.
More modernisation Andritz is set to modernise COPEL’s Governador
Parigot de Souza hydropower plant in Brazil. Work 22 | April 2025 |
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