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Yokogawa Electric Corporation has announced that Eraring Energy, a major electricity generating corporation in Australia, has placed a contract with Yokogawa Australia for an Integrated Control and Monitoring System (ICMS) to replace the control systems at Eraring Power Station.

Eraring Power Station, located 125 km north of Sydney in New South Wales, is one of the largest power generation plants in Australia. It comprises four 660 MW coal-fired boiler/steam generator units.

This is the first contract awarded directly by Eraring Energy to Yokogawa to supply a distributed control system (DCS). Yokogawa's proven capabilities in the power industry have been demonstrated on many power plants, including recent similar successes at Liddell Power Station in NSW and Playford Power Station in South Australia. The control systems at Eraring will be retrofitted progressively, with the first changeover scheduled for March 2004 and the final unit being complete by the end of 2005.

Peter Jackson, General Manager/Production at Eraring Power Station, said, "Eraring Energy considered that the Yokogawa solution offered the best integrated package of a control system, monitoring system and training simulator, as well as strong local support."

The project will be a joint Yokogawa effort. Yokogawa Australia's Global Power Solutions Center (GPSC) will be leading the project, Yokogawa's Japan headquarters will lend assistance, and TechComm Simulation will provide the full replica simulator.