China's Anhui Province Will Upgrade Power Plants and Grids

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Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas). China State Grid and Anhui Power will invest several billion dollars in Anhui province to upgrade the grids of the province. Meanwhile, Anhui will build four coal-fired power plants.

China State Grid Corporation (Beijing, China) intends to invest another $1.3 billion in China's Anhui province to upgrade the province's grids. Along with the promised $4.4 billion investment by China State Grid and Anhui's provincial government in their contract signed last year, the total investment by China State Grid Corporation would have surpassed the total investment during Anhui's past half century. It has not reported specific projects to be built.

Anhui's provincial power company also participates in the upgrading. According to the Eleventh Five-Year Grids Upgrading Plan of Anhui Power Company (Hefei city, Anhui province), Anhui Power will invest $1.51 billion in the coming four years addressing problems of unstable and obsolete grids. In the $1.51 billion to be invested, $138 million will be used to solve problems in stability of the province's grids, $672 million will be used to increase the grids' transmission capability, $252.37 million will be used to maintain good condition of facilities, $95.5 million will be used to decrease lost in electricity transmission, and $354.7 million will be used for "other items," China Power News Network was quoted as saying. China Power News Network is supervised by State Electricity Regulatory Commission of China.

Specifically, $1.51 billion will be used to renovate seventeen 500kV circuit breakers, nineteen 500 kV transmission lines, forty-two 220 kV transformers, seventy-four 220 kV circuit breakers, eighty-nine 220 kV transmission lines, sixty 110 kV transformers, one hundred and sixty 110 kV circulate breakers, sixty 110 kV transmission lines.

In terms of power plant building, Anhui will upgrade its Hefei Power Plant, in the province's capital, with a set of 600,000 kW generating units. The project will start before the end of 2007.

There are also three coal-fired power plants on the agenda of the provincial government. The new power plants in Tongling city, Bengbu city and Chahu city will have two 600,000 kW generating units each.

The Tongling and Bengbu plants are invested by China Guodian Corporation (Beijing, China), while the Chaohu one is invested by China Huaneng Group (Beijing, China). All four projects are supposed to be complete by 2009.

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