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China builds 3.6-GW pumped
storage plant to feed Olympics
CHINA STATE Grid Corporation of China (SGC) has grid. The project will help to guarantee the power
opened 3.6 GW of pumped storage hydro capac- supply to the upcoming 2022 Beijing Winter
ity that will provide electricity for the Beijing Olympics.
Winter Olympics in February. The Fengning pumped storage station will
SGC said the Fengning complex in Hebei be operated by State Grid Xinyuan Company, a
Province had cost $3.02bn to build and was subsidiary of SGC.
installed in two 1.8-GW phases. China, which has 30 GW of pumped hydro
The whole complex, the largest single storage operating, aims to have 62 GW of
pumped storage system in the world, features 12 pumped hydro online by 2025, nearly doubling
generating sets of 300 MW each, accommodated to 120 GW by 2030, according to a plan pub-
in an underground powerhouse. It will be able to lished by the National Energy Administration
generate 6.612bn kWh per year. (NEA) in September.
“[The station] can help save 480,000 tonnes of Meanwhile, China Three Gorges Corp.
coal and reduce 1.2mn tonnes of carbon dioxide (CTG), another state-owned power giant, said it
emissions every year,” Wu Peizhi, deputy general had begun construction of the 1,700-MW Tian-
manager of the power station, told China Media tai pumped storage project, which will feature
Group in June. the world’s highest hydraulic head.
“It will help make the Olympics 100% the The Tiantai pumped storage power plant in
greenest ever in history.” Tiantai County, Zhajiang Province, forms part
Engineering company China Gezhouba of the country’s Medium and Long-term Devel-
Group built the whole complex, which is con- opment Plan for Pumped Storage (2021-2035)
nected to the Zhangbei VSC-HVDC power grid included in the 14th Five-Year Plan.
and the North China 500-kV power grid. It is planned to install 4x425-MW reversible
As a pumped storage plant, it will operate as hydraulic generators, with a total installed capac-
a peaking power plant to ensure the stable oper- ity of 1,700 MW.
ation of the grid and balance electricity supplies Upon completion, the station will be used for
from large wind and solar projects in Hebei and peak load regulation, valley filling, frequency
Inner Mongolia. regulation, phase modulation, power storage
Together with other pumped storage facili- and emergency use for Zhejiang’s power grid,
ties, it is expected to enhance the peak regula- and to provide flexible dispatching capacity for
tion capacity of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei power the East China Grid.
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