Four New Power Units Officially Operational in Central China Power Grid

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Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--Power construction on the Central China Power Grid continues swift development, with a total of four large generating units recently put into official operation in August.

On August 13, 2007, Guodian Huangjinpu Power Generation Company, Limited (Jiangxi, China), a company jointly invested by China Guodian Corporation (Beijing, China) (51%) and Shanghai Pengxin Group Corporation (Shanghai, China) (49%) placed into commercial operation the second 600-megawatt (MW) supercritical coal-fired unit, realizing the company’s objective to “put two 600 MW units into operation in 2007” five months ahead of schedule. The project is located in Shangrao City, Jiangxi Province.

On August 20, 2007, the No. 21 Unit (700 MW) of the Right Bank Power Station of the Yangtze Three Gorges Hydropower Project passed the 72-hour trial operation, and put into official operation in Yichang City, Hubei Province. So far, there are seventeen 700 MW turbine generating-units operated in the Yangtze Three Gorges Hydropower Project.

On August 21, 2007, the No. 1 Unit of the Henan Zhumadian Zhongyuan Gas Power Plant, the first large-scale private and environmental power plant in Henan Province, passed the 168-hour trial operation, and was put into official operation. The project was invested by Henan Blue Sky Group (Henan, China), with a total investment of $316 million and is comprised of two 390 MW combined-cycle generating units. The No. 2 Unit is currently ready for water pressure tests, and is expected to be put into operation by the end of this year.

On August 22, 2007, the No. 2 Unit of the Baoshan Power Plant of Huadian Xinxiang Power Generation Company, Limited (Henan, China) passed the 168-hour trial operation successfully and was put into official operation in Henan Province, following the No. 1 Unit that was put into operation the first time on March 31, 2007.

Central China Power Grid (CCPG) is one of the six large regional grids in China, covering Henan, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangxi, Sichuan and Chongqing Provinces. By the end of 2006, total installed capacity under the united dispatching of CCPG was 100.88 million kilowatts. Among them, the installed capacity of hydropower is 38.04 million kilowatts, accounting for 37.7% and the installed capacity of thermal power is 62.84 million kilowatts, accounting for 62.3%.

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