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THERMAL GENERATION
Chinese to build 400 MW in Cambodia
Cambodia’s state-run electricity supplier Electricite Du Cambodge (EDC) has signed an agreement with two Chinese rms to build a power plant burning heavy fuel oil (HFO) and LNG that will be able to generate 400 MW.
e facility, which will be composed of two main plants, will be built in Kandal province’s Lvea Em district.
e agreement signing ceremony was attended by the ambassadors of China, Germany, and Finland.
China’s CGGC-UN Power Co and China National Heavy Machinery Corporation (CHMC) will build the power plants under an engineering, procurement and construction contract.
No exact date has been given as to when construction will begin, but EDC representatives have said the facility will be ready within 10 months.
e project is composed of two plants. One will be powered by a 200 MW generator from Finnish rm Wartsila. is plant will be built by CGGC.
e second plant will use another 200 MW generator, this time from Germany’s Man Group, and will be built by CHMC.
Keo Ratanak, EDC managing director, said the project will cost US$380 million. Around– $300 million is to be lent by the government and the rest coming from EDC’s budget.
“ is plant will ensure that our energy supply is stable. It will solve our energy problems next year,” he said.
NUCLEAR
Japanese court approves
safety at 2 operating
reactors
A Japanese court said on June 17 that it had found no illegality in the safety clearances granted for two reactors at Kyushu Electric Power’s Sendai NPP.
A total of 33 plainti s led the lawsuit over a licence issued by regulators for design changes to the Nos. 1 and 2 units at Sendai.
e two units were the rst to restart among the commercial reactors that went o ine in the wake of the Fukushima nuclear disaster.
e plainti s argued regulators gave the green light without su ciently assessing the potential risk of eruptions at nearby Mount
Aso in Kumamoto Prefecture and four other volcanoes.
In the rst ruling of its kind, the Fukuoka District Court concluded the license issued by the Nuclear Regulation Authority was not illegal.
“Japanese laws on nuclear power do not go so far as requiring (regulators) to consider the impact of a catastrophic volcanic eruption that is impossible to predict and highly unlikely to occur,” Presiding Judge Moriharu Kurasawa said.
e No. 1 and 2 reactors at the Sendai plant were reopened in August and October 2015, respectively, a er securing their licence in September 2014.
with 12 hydro-generator units, each having a capacity of 850 MW.
e total installed capacity of the station will be 10,200 MW and the annual power generation is estimated at 38.91 billion kWh.
“At present, the construction of Wudongde hydropower project is progressing smoothly,” said Zhang, adding that the station is scheduled to start storing water in July 2020.
e rst generator will be put into use in August 2020 and all units will be operational by December 2021, Zhang said.
e Wudongde HPP is located in the Yangtze River Economic Belt, close to the of ree Gorges, Baihetan and Xiluodu hydro projects.
HYDRO RENEWABLES
China to open Wudongde HPP in 2020
China’s Wudongde hydropower station, which will be China’s fourth largest and the world’s seventh largest hydropower project upon completion, is scheduled to start power generation in August 2020.
Located on the Jinsha River, the upper stretches of the Yangtze River in southwest China, the Wudongde HPP station has a maximum dam height of 270 meters and a total reservoir capacity of 7.4 billion cubic meters, according to Zhang Jianshan, head
of the construction bureau under the China Gezhouba Group ree Gorges Construction Engineering.
e hydropower station will be equipped
MDB climate financing reaches record high
Climate nancing by the world’s largest multilateral development banks (MDBs) in developing countries and emerging economies rose to an all-time high of $43.1 billion in 2018, boosting projects that help developing countries cut emissions and address climate risks.
is represents an increase of more than 22% from the previous year, where climate nance totalled $35.2bn.
e sharp increase came in response to the ever more pressing challenge of climate change, which disproportionately a ects the poorest and most vulnerable, a er the adoption in 2015 of the Paris Agreement.
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