Daisuke Murata appointed as Managing Director of Toshiba JSW Power Systems

Toshiba JSW Power Systems Private Limited has appointed Daisuke Murata as its new Managing Director. Murata has over thirty years of experience in power sector engineering and manufacturing.

Toshiba JSW Power Systems Private Limited, herein referred to as Toshiba JSW, a joint venture between Japan’s Toshiba Group and India’s JSW Group, today announced the appointment of Daisuke Murata as its new Managing Director. Murata graduated from the University of Tokyo with a Bachelor of Engineering and joined the Toshiba Group in 1994. For three decades, he worked on the engineering and manufacturing large equipment for power sectors and was later responsible for business development utilising a new technology. During this period, he gained valuable knowledge and experience in the design and procurement of the generator, production planning and control of the turbine and generator, technical leading and management of the new businesses, and application of new technology such as heavy ion therapy systems and superconducting.

 His illustrious experience and expertise earned Murata the position of Technology Executive of Keihin Factory, Toshiba Energy Systems & Solutions Corporation (Toshiba ESS), the parent company of Toshiba JSW, in 2020. In 2021, Murata was appointed as the Head of the New Business Unit in the Power System Division of Toshiba ESS.

 Murata commented on his appointment as MD, Toshiba JSW said, “Toshiba is dedicated to promoting sustainable development worldwide. At Toshiba JSW, we possess the expertise and experience to deliver high-quality power generation equipment and maintenance services to power plants to enhance efficiency, minimise downtime, and reduce carbon emissions. In my new role at Toshiba JSW, I aim to bolster our Make-in-India programme and Export-from-India initiatives by expanding our business presence in overseas markets, including Southeast Asia, the Middle East, and Africa. By fully utilising our world-class manufacturing facility in Chennai and the Global Engineering Centre in Gurgaon, we will provide high-quality products and services, supported by excellent installation supervision by our certified Indian technical advisors, to our customers in India and globally.”

Toshiba JSW is committed to improving and modernising the power sector, accelerating the transition towards a carbon-neutral society. Toshiba JSW offers high-efficiency equipment and services to existing power plants, which can help reduce CO2 emissions and maintain high availability. Recently, Toshiba JSW has demonstrated its comprehensive service capabilities by restoring a unit to limited capacity power generation within 3 months following an unplanned shutdown due to low pressure (LP) turbine damage. Toshiba JSW also offers effective solutions for ’preventive maintenance’ through advanced digital IoT solutions like EtaPROâ for power plants, which further help improve the efficiency and reliability of power-generating assets.

In addition, Toshiba JSW, in cooperation with Toshiba ESS, continues to provide a Carbon Dioxide Capture Utilisation and Storage (CCUS) solution that helps separate and capture CO2 from its source, such as thermal power plants. The captured CO2 can later be used differently for a different purpose. Currently, Toshiba JSW engineers are undergoing extensive training and preparing to take up the work for CCUS in the future.