Doosan Enerbility Accelerates Efforts to Expand SMR Production Capacity to Meet Surging Global Demand

Chairman Park Gee-won of Doosan Enerbility. (Photos: Doosan Enerbility)

Doosan Enerbility is accelerating efforts to expand its SMR production capacity to meet a surge in demand for SMRs abroad.

Doosan Enerbility plans to launch a project to build a plant dedicated to producing SMRs in May after finishing license and permission procedures. The SMR plant is to be dedicated in 2031.

If the SMR plant is completed, Doosan Enerbility will see its SMR production capacity grow from 12 units currently to 20 units.

Today, the company uses only one of the five nuclear power production lines for producing SMRs.

Doosan Enerbility Chmn. Park Gee-won’s decision to build an exclusive SMR plant may be construed as a move to position the company ahead of a surge in SMR demand abroad.

In a related development, X-energy, an investee of Doosan Enerbility, has successfully attracted an investment from Amazon.

The agreement is expected to be a boon for Doosan Enerbility’s expected rising demand for core components in X-energy’s advanced small modular reactors (SMRs).

Industry sources said on April 17 Amazon struck a $500 million equity investment deal with X-energy.

X-energy is a fourth-generation SMR company based in United States. In January 2025, Doosan Enerbility made an equipment investment into X-energy.

A 380MW gas turbine, developed and produced by Doosan Enerbility.

Doosan Enerbility Wins Supplier Contract from Korea Southern Power for Three Gas Turbines

Doosan Enerbility has signed its first gas turbine supply contract of the year with Korea Southern Power (KOSPO).

Doosan Enerbility announced on Feb. 11 that it had held a contract signing ceremony with KOSPO for the supply of three 380MW gas turbines.

The signing ceremony which was held at Doosan Enerbility’s Changwon headquarters was attended by the related parties, including Seo Sung-jae, Executive Director of KOSPO’s Engineering Safety Division, and Sohn Seung-woo, CEO of Doosan Enerbility’s Power Services Business Group.

Under the terms of this agreement, Doosan Enerbility will be delivering three of its gas turbines to two power plant sites of KOSPO.

Two of the gas turbines will be delivered to the 1000MW Hadong Combined Cycle Power Plant being built in Hadong County of Gyeongsangnam-do, while another one will be delivered to the 500MW Goyang-Changneung Combined Cycle Power Plant in Goyang city of Gyeonggi-do, along with generators and auxiliary equipment that are also to be supplied by Doosan.

Both power plants have December 2029 set as their target date for commercial operation.

Doosan Enerbility Signs KRW 575bn EPC Contract with Yawol Offshore Wind Farm Co.

Doosan Enerbility announced last Dec. 31 that it had signed an EPC (engineering, procurement and construction) contract with Yawol Offshore Wind Farm Co., Ltd. for construction of the 104MW Yeonggwang Yawol Offshore Wind Farm.

The Yeonggwang Yawol Offshore Wind Farm project involves deploying thirteen units of Doosan Enerbility’s 8MW offshore wind turbine (DS205-8MW) off the shore of Nakwol-myeon, Yeonggwang-gun of Jeollanam-do.

For the 575 billion won contract, Doosan Enerbility will not only be supplying its independently developed 8MW offshore wind turbines, but it will be performing the EPC services required for the overall wind farm construction.

This is the first supply contract to be secured by Doosan Enerbility for its 8MW offshore wind turbine.

The 8MW offshore wind turbine, developed by Doosan using homegrown technology and UL-certified in 2022, holds significance as having been specially designed to suit the Korean environment which has a lower wind speed compared to European countries.

Doosan Enerbility Signs Reservation Agreement with X-energy for Core Materials of 16 SMR Units

Doosan Enerbility will be embarking on preparations for the manufacturing of core components to be used in X-energy’s advanced small modular reactors (SMRs).

Doosan Enerbility announced last Dec. 12 that it had signed a reservation agreement with the X-energy to supply core materials for its advanced reactors.

The signing ceremony, which was held in Washington D.C. last Dec. 11, was attended by the related parties, including Clay Sell, CEO of X-energy and Kim Jong-doo, CEO of Doosan Enerbility’s Nuclear Business Group.

The agreement was pursued as X-energy sought to preemptively secure Doosan Enerbility’s forgings, key materials to be used in sixteen of X-energy’s Xe-100 reactors.

Mid to large-sized forgings, which are required in the manufacturing of the main components of SMRs, are materials that require a long production lead time.

Follow-up agreements on commencing the manufacturing of the SMR forgings and modules are expected to subsequently take place between the two companies.

Xe-100 is the name of X-energy’s advanced small modular reactor model. Unlike the conventional water-cooled reactors, the Xe-100 reactor uses helium gas as the coolant.

X-energy is a developer of next-generation high temperature gas-cooled reactors, which currently receives support from the U.S. Department of Energy.

The first project set for delivery is Dow Inc.’s industrial complex in Texas, where four units of the Xe-100 reactor are scheduled to be deployed.

Another 12 units of the Xe-100 reactor are to be deployed for Energy Northwest at its project site in Washington state.

The Energy Northwest project, a 5GW-scale project slated to be completed by 2039 via collaboration between X-energy and Amazon Web Services (AWS), is being pursued as part of a large-scale project that ultimately aims at having 60 units of the Xe-100 reactors deployed.