Gezhouba Group Wins Mechanical and Electrical Installation Bid for Hongping Pump-Storage Power Station

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Researched by Industrial Info Resources China (Beijing, China)--Gezhouba Group Mechanical & Electrical Construction Company Limited (GGMECC) (Yichang, Hubei), a subsidiary of China Gezhouba Group Corporation Limited (Wuhan, Hubei), recently won the $41 million mechanical and electrical installation bid for State Grid Corporation of China's (SGCC) (Beijing) Hongping Pump-Storage Power Station in Jiangxi, the largest pump-storage power station in the world. This is the fourth gigawatt-level, large-scale pump-storage power project contracted by the company in recent years, according to an announcement from the Gezhouba Group on March 4, 2013.

The Hongping Pump-Storage Power Station, located at Jing'an County in central China's Jiangxi province, is the first large-scale, pump-storage power station to be built in the Jiangxi province and one of the largest pump-storage power stations planned in the world. The power station has a total planned capacity of 2,400 megawatts (MW), to be built in two phases; of which, four 300-MW, single-pole, Francis convertible pump-storage units will be built in Phase I, with a total investment of about $740 million. The power station mainly comprises the upper reservoir; the lower reservoir, which was built based on a natural river channel; the water passage system; the underground powerhouse; and the surface substation.

State Grid Xin Yuan Holding Company Limited (Beijing), a subsidiary of the SGGC, is responsible for the development and future operations of the project. HydroChina Huadong Engineering Corporation (Hangzhou, China), a subsidiary of China Hydropower Engineering Consulting Group Corporation (HydroChina) (Beijing), is performing the design and engineering for the project.

According to the contract, GGMECC will be responsible for the mechanical and electrical equipment installation, as well as part of the civil and metal structural erection works of the four units in Phase I. As per contractual stipulation, the project is expected to kick off at the beginning of June 2013; the first unit will be commissioned in October 2015, and all four units will be commissioned in July 2017.

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