Three coal-fired power plants to be built
By Wang Ying (China Daily)
Updated: 2006-06-16 08:51 Most of the electricity produced from the three plants will be transmitted to
northern area comprising Beijing, Tianjin and Tangshan in Hebei
Province.
The latter is a growing industrial base that the government has
promised to support.
"Only a small proportion is going to be consumed
domestically in Mongolia," the first source said.
Chinese firms are
eyeing the easy availability of coal in Mongolia, which is cheaper than in
China, the first source said. "As a result, electricity will be cheaper," he
said.
Mongolia currently has a power generating capacity of 770 MW and
coal reserves of 150 billion tons, official statistics show.
Besides
Mongolia, both SGCC officials said they are also studying the possibility of
importing electricity from Russia and Kazakhstan.
SGCC is currently
carrying out preparatory work relating to transmitting electricity from Russia's
own power plants to Northeast China, Liu Zhaoshao said.
"We are also
talking with the Russians about participating in building transmission lines,"
he told reporters.
SGCC wants to quadruple electricity imports from
Russia to 18 billion kilowatt hours by 2010, Zheng Baosen, the firm's executive
vice-president, said in March.
Power projects in Kazakhstan may move
slower than those in Russia and Mongolia, said the first source, without
elaborating. The company is also studying similar project in other neighbouring
countries, such as Kirghizstan, he added.
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