NDRC Approves 42 Power Transmission, Substation Projects in the Fourth Quarter of 2007

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Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--The National Development and Reform Commission announced in early January that it had approved 42 power transmission and substation projects in the fourth quarter of 2007.

October 2007:
•500-kilovolt (kV) transmission project at the Aoli oil-fired power plant (Guangdong grid)
•500-kV transmission project at the Hubei Bailianhe pump-storage power plant (central China grid)
•500-kV expansion project at the Changsha East 500-kV substation (central China grid)

November 2007:
•330-kV Heihe transmission project (Gansu grid)
•330-kV Xifeng substation expansion (Gansu grid)
•330-kV Shicheng substation expansion (Gansu grid)
•330-kV Yangle transmission project (Qinghai grid)
•330-kV Xinxiaowan transmission project (Qinghai grid)
•330-kV Huangyuan transmission project (Qinghai grid)
•330-kV Dashimen transmission project (Qinghai grid)
•500-kV transmission project for Fugu power plant's Phase I (Shaanxi grid)
•500-kV transmission project for Shenmu power plant's Phase II (Shaanxi grid)
•330-kV Weinan East substation project (Shaanxi grid)
•330-kV Huangling substation expansion (Shaanxi grid)
•330-kV Xizhuang (Hancheng) substation expansion (Shaanxi grid)
•330-kV Jinzhou substation expansion (Shaanxi grid)
•500-kV Xinxiang East (Tapu) substation main transformer expansion (central China grid)
•500-kV Zhumadian (Zhaya) substation main transformer expansion (central China grid)
•500-kV Guang'an-Wanxian transmission project (central China grid)
•500-kV Honggou substation expansion (central China grid)
•500-kV transmission project at the Huadian Changsha power plant (central China grid)
•500-kV Xinglong substation expansion (central China grid)
•500-kV Leping substation expansion (central China grid)
•500-kV Luofang-Ji'an-Guangzhou II transmission project (central China grid)
•500-kV transmission project for Xuanwei power plant's Phase VII (Yunnan grid)

December 2007:
•330-kV Wujia Electrified Railway power supply project (Gansu grid)
•330-kV Fugu transmission project (Shaanxi grid)
•330-kV Mianxian transmission project (Shaanxi grid)
•500-kV Baoling DC transmission expansion (between the northwestern and central Chinese grids)
•500-kV Nanchang substation main transformer expansion (central China grid)
•500-kV Yongzhou transmission (central China grid)
•500-kV Chenzhou transmission (central China grid)
•500-kV Changsha West substation expansion (central China grid)
•500-kV Mingfeng substation expansion (central China grid)
•500-kV Dieling transmission project (Guangdong grid)
•500-kV Xianlingshan-Huadian transmission project (Guangdong grid)
•500-kV support substation project for the Guizhou-Guangdong DC transmission line II (Guangdong grid)
•500-kV Houcun-Shibei II transmission project (Shanxi grid)
•500-kV Shuozhou transmission project (Shanxi grid)
•500-kV Jiamusi-Suihua-Harbin transmission project (Northeast grid)
•500-kV Songyuan transmission project (Northeast grid)
•500-kV Huolinhe-Tongliao-Shaling transmission project (Northeast grid)

These projects represent the construction of 5,025 kilometers of transmission lines, 24,690 megavolt-amperes of transformer capacity, 3,723.2 megavolt-amperes reactive of high-voltage reactor capacity and 750 megawatts of conversion capacity. About 615 kilometers of transmission lines are of 330-kV class, and about 4,410 kilometers of transmission lines are of 500-kV class.

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