Development History
Gas Turbines
History of Mitsubishi Power' Gas Turbines
1961 | Technical partnership formed with Westinghouse Electric Corporation. |
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1963 | A 730°C class MW-171, as the first Mitsubishi Power' commercial gas turbine, comes into operation at Asahi Glass Co., Ltd. in Chiba. |
1976 | Development of the 1,000°C class MW-701B is finished using independent technologies. |
1984 | The 1,150°C class MW-701D becomes the world's first gas turbine to incorporate a pre-mixed combustor and unit comes into commercial operation as Unit 3 in the Higashi Niigata Thermal Power Station of Tohoku Electric Power Co., Inc. |
1986 | Development of the 1,250°C class MF-111 is finished using independent technologies and its first unit comes into commercial operation. |
The technical partnership with Westinghouse Electric Corporation terminated. | |
1987 | A large capacity BFG-fired MW-701D comes into commercial operation at JFE Steel Corporation in Chiba. |
1988 | The first H-25 comes into commercial operation. |
1991 | The first H-15 (as a downscaled model of the H-25 Series) comes into commercial operation. |
1992 | A 1,350°C class M701F gas turbine comes into validation operation. |
1997 | The world's first 1,500°C class M501G comes into validation operation. |
1999 | An M701G comes into commercial operation in the combined cycle power plant as Unit 4 in the Higashi Niigata Thermal Power Station of Tohoku Electric Power Co., Inc. |
2003 | An M701F for residual oil-fired IGCC comes into commercial operation at JXTG Nippon Oil & Energy Corporation at Negishi. |
2004 | A 300 MW BFG-fired M701F comes into commercial operation in a combined cycle power plant as Unit 5 of Kimitsu Cooperative Thermal Power Company, Inc. |
2007 | An air-blown IGCC system comes into verification operation. The unit becomes Unit 10 at the Nakoso Power Station of Joban Joint Power Co., Ltd. in 2013. |
An M701G comes into commercial operation in a combined cycle power plant as Unit 1 at the Kawasaki Thermal Power Station of TEPCO Fuel & Power, Inc. | |
2010 | A 1,400°C class M701F comes into commercial operation in a combined cycle power plant as Unit 4 in the Sendai Power Station of Tohoku Electric Power Co., Inc. |
An H-100, as the world's largest capacity two-shaft gas turbine, comes into commercial operation. | |
2011 | The world's first 1,600°C class M501J comes into validation operation. |
2013 | An M501J comes into commercial operation in a combined cycle power plant in the Himeji No. 2 Power Station of the Kansai Electric Power Co., Inc. |
2015 | An M701F incorporating J-Series technology comes into commercial operation in Unit 3 in the Shin-Sendai Power Station of Tohoku Electric Power Co., Inc. |
2016 | The J-Series commercial unit reaches a cumulative total operating time of 250,000 hours to prove its high reliability. |
A 1,600°C class 50-Hz M701J comes into commercial operation in Unit 2 at the Kawasaki Power Station of TEPCO Fuel & Power, Inc. | |
2020 | The next generation 1,650°C class M501JAC comes into validation operation. |