SEPEC Wins EPC Contract for SDIC Meizhou Bay Power Plant Phase II Expansion Project

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Researched by Industrial Info Resources China (Beijing, China)--On April 18, 2013, Shandong Electric Power Engineering Consultation Institute (SEPEC) (Jinan, Shandong), a subsidiary of State Nuclear Power Technology Corporation (SNPTC) (Beijing), signed the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) general contract with SDIC Power Holdings Company Limited (Beijing) (SH.600886) for SDIC's 2,000-megawatt (MW), Phase II expansion project at the Meizhou Bay Power Plant in Jinan.

SDIC's Meizhou Bay Power Plant, which is located in Zhongmen Peninsula, Xiuyu District in Putian City, in eastern China's Fujian province, was originally a foreign-invested power plant with two 393-MW, coal-fired units in operation. In November 2010, SDIC Power Holdings acquired the control rights of the power plant from Genting Sanyen Power Sdn Bhd (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia). Fujian Meizhou Bay Power Generation Company Limited (Putian, Fujian) was then jointly established by SDIC Power Holdings (51%) and Genting Sanyen Power Sdn Bhd (49%) to be responsible for the operation of the existing units, as well as the construction of the Phase II expansion.

As a part of a new type of port, coal and power integrated energy complex in the west bank economic development zone of the Taiwan Strait, the project will be furnished with two ultra-supercritical, coal-fired boilers to support two 1,000-MW steam turbine generators in adjoining support facilities.

According to the schedule, the first unit will be handed over for commercial operations in October 2015, followed by the second unit in January 2016. Upon completion, the installed capacity of the power plant will be increased to 2,786 MW.

Shi Jialin, vice president of the SNPTC; Hu Gang, chairman of SDIC Power Holdings; and Hou Xuezhong, president of the SEPEC, attended the signing ceremony, according to the SEPEC announcement. Also in attendance were the leaders and representatives from Shanghai Electric Corporation, the supplier of the main turbine, generator and boiler equipment required for the project.

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