Environmental Impact Assessment Report for China Guodian's Karamay Cogeneration Project Receives Approval

---

Researched by Industrial Info Resources China (Beijing, China)--The environmental impact assessment report for Guodian Karamay Thermal Power Company Limited's (GKTPC) (Karamay, Xinjiang) Karamay Cogeneration Project received approval from the Ministry of Environment Protection (MEP) in July 2012, according to a recent announcement from the MEP.

The Guodian Karamay Cogeneration Project, located in the Petroleum and Chemical Industrial Park of Karamay, has a total planned capacity of 1,400 megawatts (MW) of coal-fired units for combined heat and power (CHP) supply in Karamay, in the Xinjiang autonomous region. According to the approval, 700 MW of supercritical, direct air-cooling, pump-condensing CHP units, together with two 1,224-ton-per-hour, pulverized, coal-fired boilers, adopted an indirect air-cooling and mechanical ventilation cooling tower, and an associated flue gas desulfuration, nitrogen emission control and dust removing system, which will be built in Phase I. Upon completion, the project will replace 85 small, coal-fired boilers in 15 boiler rooms scattered in downtown Karamay.

As a fully owned subsidiary of Guodian Xinjiang Power Company Limited (Urumqi, Xinjiang), the GKTPC was established for the construction of the project in May 2010. The project received preliminary approval from the National Energy Administration to kick off pre-stage preparation on April 27, 2011. In order to meet the increasing power demand of Petro China's 10 million-metric-ton oil-refining expansion project in Karamay, site preparation of the project kicked off immediately after the preliminary approval. Beijing Guodian Longyuan Environmental Engineering Company Limited (Beijing) is responsible for construction management of the project. Shandong Electric Power Construction No.3 Engineering Company (Qingdao, Shandong), Anhui Electric Power Construction No.1 Engineering Company (Hefei, Anhui), and Northwest Electric Power Construction No.4 Engineering Company (Xi'an, Shaanxi) are responsible for construction and erection of Unit 1, Unit 2, and the balance of the project, respectively.

On June 8, 2011, construction of the project kicked off without receiving final approval. On October 16, 2011, erection of the first boiler steel frame for Unit 1 began. On June 3, 2012, the concrete placement for steam turbine base of Unit 2 was completed. According to the schedule, the project will begin operations by the end of this year. However, the project is still subject to final approval from the National Development and Reform Commission before it can be put into operation.

Industrial Info Resources (IIR), with global headquarters in Sugar Land, Texas, and eight offices outside of North America, is the leading provider of global market intelligence specializing in the industrial process, heavy manufacturing and energy markets. Industrial Info's quality-assurance philosophy, the Living Forward Reporting Principle™, provides up-to-the-minute intelligence on what's happening now, while constantly keeping track of future opportunities.