Anneng Thermoelectric Group to Build More Biomass Power Plants in Hubei

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Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--Following the completion of its first biomass power plant in Yicheng in March last year, Anneng Thermoelectric Group Company Limited (Wuhan, Hubei), a leading new energy player in China, began construction preparation for biomass power projects in Anlu and Zaoyang in October 2010. On February 17, 2011, the company called on public participation for the environmental impact assessment for its biomass power plant in Qujialing again.

The proposed Qujialing Biomass Power Plant is in the Qujialing Industry Park of Jingmen City, Hubei province. The project plans to build two 75-ton-per-hour, stalk-fired boilers to support two 15-megawatt (MW), condensing-type steam-turbine generating units by using of agricultural waste such as stalks, branches and rice hulls as raw materials.

In addition to the project proposed in Qujialing, Anneng Thermoelectric Group also plans to build biomass power plant in the Huopai Industry Park in Huopai Town of Xiangfan City, and another in Zhongxiang City of Hubei province. Both projects will have the same configuration as the Qujialing project.

As a kind of new energy, investment in biomass power generation was very popular three years ago. However, due to the increasing cost in collecting stalks from farmers, as well as the uncertainty in the selling price of electricity, projects commissioned in China were not profitable until last year. In later 2010, the Chinese government fixed the selling price of electricity generated from biomass power plants to the grid at 0.75 Chinese yuan, or about $0.114, per kilowatt-hour (KWh), which is much higher than the original allowance of 0.25 Chinese yuan per KWh, plus standard tariff for electricity generated from coal-fired, which varies from 0.35 to 0.45 Chinese yuan per KWh across the country. With this new policy, and following the emerging of more and more profitable biomass power plants in operation, investment in biomass in China has regained its flourish starting from later 2010.

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