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To: RealMuLan who wrote (2796)	3/12/2004 6:45:05 PM
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TABLE-Major projects planned in power-thirsty China Reuters, 03.12.04, 12:18 AM ET SINGAPORE/BEIJING, March 12 (Reuters) - China, which suffers from chronic power shortage, is scrambling to build power plants across the nation to fuel the world's sixth-largest economy. China plans to begin construction on 40,000 megawatts of generation capacity and add another 37,000 MW in additional capacity this year, Ma Kai, director of the State Development and Reform Commission, told parliament last week. China's power demand growth is the fastest in the world, driven by strong economic expansion, but output has struggled to keep up. Brownouts hit more than half of its provinces last summer, partly resulting from peak demand surges overwhelming a fragmented grid system. China's power market is the world's second largest, after the United States, and divert energy sources from coal, which fires three-quarters of the 384,500-MW installed capacity. The following lists some major power projects approved in 2003 for construction, or which were awaiting permission. The information is from the State Development and Reform Commission on its Web site (www.sdpc.gov.cn) as well as the Web site operated by State Power Information Network (www.sp.com.cn). Many of the projects are planned for feeding the country's southern and eastern grids, which cover provinces where the economy is the most booming in the country, including Guangdong, Zhejiang and Jiangsu. Many of the projects are designed to use cleaner energy such as hydro, natural gas or liquefied natural gas (LNG). -- MAJOR POWER PROJECTS APPROVED FOR CONSTRUCTION -- projects fuel capacity (megawatts) NORTHEAST CHINA Liaoning Power Plant upgrade n/a 2 x 350 Jilin Changchun No.2 Thermal Power Plant n/a 2 x 200 NORTH CHINA Shanxi Datong No.2 Power Plant phase 2 n/a 2 x 600 Inner Mongolia Zhenglan Power Plant n/a 2 x 600 Inner Mongolia Daihai Power Plant n/a 2 x 600 Hebei Zhanghewan power plant hydro 4 x 250 Hebei Huanghua Power Plant n/a 2 x 600 Shanxi Xilongchi power plant hydro 4 x 300 Shanxi Yushe Power Plant phase 2 n/a 2 x 300 Shanxi Zhangze Power Plant phase 3 n/a 2 x 300 Shanxi Gujiao Power Plant n/a 2 x 300 EAST CHINA Jiangsu Huaiyin Power Plant phase 2 n/a 2 x 300 Jiangsu Pengcheng Power Plant phase 2 n/a 2 x 300 Jiangsu Changshu Power Plant n/a 2 x 600 Jiangsu Qishuyan Power Plant gas 2 x 390 Jiangsu Wangtin Power Plant gas 2 x 390 Jiangsu Yixing plant hydro 4 x 250 Zhejiang Banshan Power Plant gas 3 x 390 Anhui Chizhou Power Plant n/a 2 x 300 Anhui Buyang Power Plant n/a 2 x 600 CENTRAL CHINA Henan Baoquan power plant hydro 4 x 300 Henan Dengfeng Power Plant n/a 2 x 300 Henan Hebi Power Plant phase 2 n/a 2 x 300 Henan Yongcheng Power Plant phase 2 n/a 2 x 300 Hunan Fengtan Hydropower plant upgrade hydro 2 x 200 Sichuan Guangan Power Plant phase 2 n/a 2 x 300 SOUTH CHINA Guangxi Hongshuihe Etan Power Plant hydro 4 x 150 Guizhou Wujiang Goupitan Power Plant hydro 5 x 600 Guangdong Shantou Power Plant n/a 1 x 600 Yunnan Kaiyuan Power Plant phase 1 n/a 2 x 300 NORTHWEST CHINA Gansu Liancheng Power Plant phase 2 n/a 2 x 300 Ningxia Zhongning Power Plant expansion n/a 2 x 300 -- MAJOR POWER PROJECTS AWAITING OFFICIAL APPROVAL -- Jinshajiang Xiluodu hydropower plant hydro 18 x 700 Jinshajiang Xiangjiaba hydropower plant hydro 10 x 600 Beijing No.3 Gas Power Plant gas 1 x 390 Jiangsu Zhangjiagang Gas Power Plant gas 2 x 390 Zhejiang Yuhuan Power Plant n/a 2 x 900 Shanghai Caojing Gas Power Plant gas 2 x 390 Huaneng Shanghai Shidongkou Gas Power Plant gas 3 x 390 Jiangsu Huaneng Jinling Gas Power Plant gas 3 x 390 Jiangsu Shazhou Power Plant n/a 2 x 600 Jiangsu Taicang Power Plant phase 2 n/a 2 x 600 Jiangsu Ligang Power Plant phase 3 n/a 2 x 600 Zhejiang Guohua Ninghai Power Plant n/a 4 x 600 Zhejiang Xiaoshan Gas Power Plant n/a 2 x 390 Zhejiang Zhenhai Gas Power Plant gas 2 x 390 Zhejiang Oujiang Tankeng Power Plant hydro 3 x 200 Sichuan Yalongjiang Jinping Power Plant hydro 6 x 600 Sichuan Daduhe Pubugou Power Plant hydro 6 x 550 Guangdong Shanwei Power Plant n/a 2 x 600 Guangdong Huizhou power plant hydro 8 x 300 Guangdong Qianwan LNG Power Plant LNG 3 x 390 Guangdong Huizhou LNG Power Plant LNG 3 x 390 Guangdong Shendong LNG Power Plant LNG 3 x 390 Guangdong Zhujiang LNG Power Plant LNG 2 x 390 Guizhou Pannan Power Plant phase 1 n/a 2 x 600 Hainan Basuo Gas Power Plant gas 2 x 350 * China's five major state-owned independent power producers, including China Huaneng Group, China Datang Corp, China Huadian Corp, China Power Investment Corp and China Guodian (Group) Corp, are among the biggest domestic power investors. Huaneng Group says it plans to start building 10 power generating projects in 2004 with total installed capacity of 8,695 MWs. At the end of 2003, the group controlled 31,360 MWs of capacity, accounting for 8.2 percent of national total. It also had 9,545 MWs under construction. Beijing also has a preliminary plan to quadruple nuclear power capacity to more than 32,000 MWs between 2005 and 2020, or roughly two plants a year. China has built only eight reactors over the past two decades. Copyright 2004, Reuters News Service forbes.com