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COAL
China Energy to grow ultra-
low emission coal-fired
capacity
China Energy Group has said it will add over 6 GW of new ultra-low emission coal- red capacity this year as it bids to meet growing electricity demand. e comments were made on July 18 by the head of China Energy’s coal- red power department, Xiao Jianying. e state-run rm is the country’s largest power generator.
Xiao told Reuters that the company also anticipated building another 5 GW of low- emission capacity in 2020.
“China still has quite a big demand for electricity. e government now supports regions with poor wind and solar resources to use coal- red power ... it’s a more practical measure, as gas is still too expensive,” said Xiao. He added that the company would gradually shut down small and polluting coal- red power units and replace them with e cient ones. According to Xiao, total capacity will continue to increase, but at a slower rate of growth.
China Energy operated coal- red plants with a total capacity of 175 GW at the end of 2018, accounting for 77.4% of its total capacity and about 10% of Chinese capacity as a whole.
India to propose negating
distinction between captive
coal, commercial mining
India’s Ministry of Coal is working on a proposal to negate the legal distinction
between captive coal mines operated by user industries and commercial mining operations run by private merchant miners.
e move was prompted by the fact that user industries including steel, cement and nonferrous metal re ners have either failed to bring coal blocks speci cally allocated to them into operation or are not producing optimal volumes of coal.
Meanwhile, the opening up of commercial coal mining to private miners without any end-use restrictions and with a free pricing regime has also failed to result in any meaningful interest from investors. is has prompted the Ministry of Coal to postpone the auction of coal blocks for such commercial mining.
e ministry is considering a move to force user industries that have already been allocated coal blocks, but are not developing them, to surrender the assets. It may even impose a 10% penalty for not achieving performance targets as set out in contracts.
GAS-FIRED GENERATION
Cambodia chooses MAN for new, major power plant
MAN Energy Solutions and China National Heavy Machinery Corporation (CHMC) have jointly won the contract to build a 200 MW power station in the Cambodian capital, Phnom Penh.
While CHMC will take responsibility
for the engineering, procurement and construction, MAN has been tasked with the delivery and commissioning of the new plant’s 11 × 18V51/60DF engines.
Owned and operated by Cambodia’s national utility, Electricité du Cambodge, the plant will signi cantly boost the country’s
generation capacity and feed enough electricity into the national grid to cover the average energy consumption of approximately 70,000 Cambodian households.
Wayne Jones, chief sales o cer at MAN Energy Solutions: “ is plant will contribute substantially to ensuring the reliable supply of electrical energy in Cambodia regardless of weather or climate conditions. Reliability and exibility is what our engines are known for and we are proud to be a part of this endeavour.”
Martin Höhler, regional head of sales for MAN Energy Solutions Power Plant business in the Asia Paci c region, said: “Cambodia relies to a large part on hydroelectric energy generation and the national grid faced stability issues during the last dry season when not all of these plants could operate at full capacity. e Government therefore launched a fast- track program to add exible generation capacity to the system. We are very happy
to play such a major role in this signi cant project to bring about reliable power in short time.”
Meeting the customer’s ambitious construction schedule calls for a
high degree of process e ciency and professionalism among the project partners. Wilson Phua, Regional Sales Manager Power Plant for the Asia-Paci c region said: “ e schedule is very demanding: the plant has to be up and running by early-2020. Accordingly, construction will commence almost immediately and we are committed to deliver the engines before the end of this year.”
MAN ENERGY SOLUTIONS, July 18, 2019
NUCLEAR
Tepco to decommission
remaining Fukushima
reactors
Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) has said it will shut down the four Fukushima Prefecture reactors that escaped damage in the 2011 earthquake and tsunami as it decommissions all of the nuclear power plants it owns in
the region. is is the rst time TEPCO has made the decision to decommission facilities beyond the Fukushima Daiichi plant, which was at the centre of the 2011 disaster.
e shutdown of the Fukushima Daini plant, located 12km away from the Daiichi plant, will be formally approved at the company’s board meeting at the end of July. e cost of decommissioning the Daini plant is estimated to exceed 270bn yen ($2.5bn). e move comes a er the Japanese government has adopted new accounting
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