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Three coal-fired power plants to be built
By Wang Ying (China Daily)
Updated: 2006-06-16 08:51
Chinese power firms plan to build three 3,600-MW (megawatt) coal-fired
power plants in neighbouring Mongolia to meet growing electricity demands
in North China.
It is one of many projects planned by China to import electricity from
neighbouring countries.
"The Mongolia plan is a phase-by-phase project. We aim to put the first
plant into operation at the end of the 11th Five-Year Plan period
(2006-10)," an official from the State Grid Corp of China (SGCC) told
reporters yesterday on the sidelines of an energy forum in Beijing.
A coal-fired power plant in East China's Anhui Province. Chinese power
firms plan to build three 3,600-MW (megawatt) coal-fired power plants in
neighbouring Mongolia to meet growing electricity demands in North China.
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"It is a growing trend in China to seek cheaper and reliable energy
resources from foreign countries to fuel the fast-growing economy," he
said.
China last year produced 2.06 billion tons of coal equivalents of energy
resources, supplying 93 per cent of domestic needs, Liu Zhaoshao, chief
economist at the SGCC, told the forum yesterday.
But as the nation's economy expands at an annual rate of at least 8 per
cent, China's domestic energy supply will be able to meet just 75 to 80
per cent of demand by 2020, he said.
China and Mongolia are now studying the feasibility of the power
projects, pending final approval from the country's top economic planning
body, the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), the first
source said.
"We have selected three sites in Mongolia to build the plants," he added.
One or more of the country's power generation firms, including Huaneng or
Datang, will be responsible for building the plants, while transmission
lines will be constructed by the nation's biggest electricity distributor
SGCC, the first source said. "It will not be a foreign company," he added.
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