China Energy/Power Technology, Strategic Layout of Resources: News & Discussions

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October 14, 2016
First two generation 3+ nuclear reactors will be operation in China by the end of this year

The four reactor coolant pumps at unit 1 of the Haiyang nuclear power plant in China's Shandong province have been operated simultaneously at full speed for the first time. The AP1000 is set to begin operating by the end of the year.

The plant is a pressurized water reactor with improved use of passive nuclear safety. It is a generation 3.5 reactor

Because of its simplified design compared to a Westinghouse generation II PWR, the AP1000 has:

50% fewer safety-related valves
35% fewer pumps
80% less safety-related piping
85% less control cable
45% less seismic building volume​

It has a core cooling system including passive residual heat removal by convection, improved containment isolation, passive containment cooling system to the atmosphere and in-vessel retention of core damage (corium) with water cooling around it. No safety-related pumps or ventilation systems are needed

In 2008 and 2009, Westinghouse made agreements to work with the Chinese State Nuclear Power Technology Corporation (SNPTC) and other institutes to develop a larger design, the CAP1400 of 1,400 MWe capacity, possibly followed by a 1,700 MWe design. China will own the intellectual property rights for these larger designs. Exporting the new larger units may be possible with Westinghouse's cooperation

Westinghouse has been working with SNPTC and SNERDI in China to develop jointly a passively safe 1500 MWe (4040 MWt) two-loop design from the AP1000, the CAP1400, with 193 fuel assemblies and improved steam generators, operating at 323°C outlet temperature, 60-year design life, and 72-hour non-intervention period in event of accident. Average discharge burn-up is about 50 GWd/t, maximum 59.5 GWd/t. Operation flexibility includes MOX capacity, 18 to 24-month cycle, and load-following. Seismic rating is 300 gal. The CAP1400 project may extend to a larger, three-loop CAP1700 or CAP 2100 design if the passive cooling system can be scaled to that level

In November 2015 SNPTC said that CAP1400 construction would start on 31 March 2016, the delay being to ensure that the primary coolant pump issues on AP1000 were sorted and to avoid winter conditions for the major concrete pour. It is expected to take 56 months to build, with later units coming down to 50 months. Westinghouse is providing technical consulting services to SNPTC for the design. More than 80% of the components will be indigenous, and contracts for 21 of 29 long lead time components had been signed by February 2015. Construction cost is expected to be CNY 15,751/kWe ($2454/kWe) and power cost CNY 0.403/kWh for the first unit and dropping to CNY 0.38/kWh (USD 5.9 cents) subsequently. A 2014 government figure is CNY 42.3 billion ($6.5 billion) for the first two units.

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In September 2007, Westinghouse and its partners the Shaw Group received authorization to construct four AP1000 units in China: two at Sanmen in Zhejiang province and two more at Haiyang.

Sanmen unit 1 is expected to be the first AP1000 to begin operating later this year, while Haiyang 1 is also expected to start up by the end of the year.

SNPTC announced last month that the four main pumps at Sanmen 1 had been operated continuously at full speed for five hours as part of the unit's start-up. The company said that, at full-speed, the pumps' vibration, stator temperature and bearing temperature were within the normal range.

Four AP1000 reactors are being built in the USA - two each at Vogtle and Summer - while three AP1000s are also proposed for the Moorside site in the UK.

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SOURCES- World Nuclear Association, Wikipedia, World Nuclear news



Next Big Future: First two generation 3+ nuclear reactors will be operation in China by the end of this year

 

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China's third overseas nuclear power plant activates grid
Yuan Can (People's Daily Online) 13:02, October 17, 2016

(File photo)​

The third nuclear power station built in conjunction with the Belt and Road Initiative has started supplying electricity to Pakistan's national grid on a trial basis, Thepaper.cn reported. The station is being run by China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC).

The Chashma Nuclear Power Plant Unit-3 (C-3), situated near Mianwali, Pakistan, has been officially connected to Pakistan's national power grid. According to CNNC, the China-powered C-3 and C-4 projects aim to deepen "all-weather" strategic partnership between China and Pakistan.

Chashma Nuclear Power Plant is the first "exported" commercial nuclear power plant independently designed and constructed by China. The other two nuclear power units at Chashma, C-1 and C-2, have been supplying electricity since 2000 and 2011 respectively, with more than 90 percent capacity.

The next unit, C-4, is slated to start operation in early 2017, the report said.

Two other large-capacity nuclear power plants in Pakistan are currently under construction in the port city of Karachi. They are scheduled to be completed in 2020 and 2021, adding an additional 2,100 MWe net electricity to the national grid.

 

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ChemChina, Sinochem deny merger report
CRI, October 16, 2016

China's two chemical giants, ChemChina and Sinochem, are denying an earlier Bloomberg report about their merger deal.

The file photo shows the headquarter of China's National Chemical Corporation in Beijing. [Photo / cnwnews.com]


A spokesperson under the ChemChina said "nothing of the sort" when contacted by thepaper.cn.for comment.

Sinochem also denied the deal in an e-mail to thepaper.cn.

At the same time, Beijing-based caixin.com is reporting that the possibility of a merger between ChemChina and Sinochem is being discussed.

The site quotes an insider source saying that a third-party investor might also be included in the deal, which could involve 15 billion U.S. dollars.

Anticipation of the deal is heightened as China undergoes reforms in the SOE sector.

A number of companies have been included in the reforms covering railway, shipping and tourism industries.

ChemChina, one of the leading chemical companies in China, took over Swiss Syngenta earlier this year with 43 billion U.S. dollars.

Once the acquisition is completed, ChemChina will have a 23 percent share in the global pesticide market and 6 percent in seeds.

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China's coal price up 12% in Sept.
Xinhua, October 18, 2016

China's coal price index was 414.07 in September, up 11.99 percent from August and 22.71 percent from a year earlier, said the country's top economic planner on Tuesday.

Since June 2016, the coal price index has been rising for four consecutive months, the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) said.

Regional data show that coal prices in Hebei, Chongqing and Shandong saw faster month-on-month increase, with prices in northern Hebei rising 19.33 percent, southern Hebei 22.66 percent, Chongqing 19.64 percent and Shandong 17.76 percent.

Insiders said that since the beginning of this year, the country has actively promoted the supply-side structural reform which helped ease the supply-and-demand imbalance of the coal market. From a long-term perspective, coal consumption will continue to decline with increasing overcapacity pressure, so it remains an arduous task to keep coal prices stable.

The top economic planner has said that the country's coal price will stabilize and shore up coal production. New coal supplies helped major thermal power plants increase their inventory by some 5.28 million tonnes in September, according to an online statement of the NDRC.

On Sept. 23 and Sept. 27, two ministerial meetings on winter coal supply agreed to release certainly advanced production capacity to ensure supply.

It also decided to relax a limit on the number of production days for efficient coal producers, with the former 260-day cap increased to a maximum of 330 days. The original limit, had it been followed, would have cut production by over 500 million tonnes in 2016.

At a press conference on Sept. 23, an NDRC official attributed the price rise to increasing coal consumption, a crackdown on illegal production, as well as transport and logistical problems.

 

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Grid connection for Pakistan's fourth reactor
17 October 2016

Pakistan's Chashma unit 3 was connected to the country's power grid on 15 October at a ceremony attended by the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission and China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC). The unit reached first criticality on 2 October.

Celebrating Chashma 3's grid connection (Image: CNNC)​

Construction began on the Chinese-designed CNP-300 pressurised water reactor (PWR) in March 2011, and the unit is expected to enter commercial operation before the end of this year.

Chashma 3 is one of two CNP-300 units being built at the site, in Punjab province. Unit 4, which began construction nine months after unit 3, is currently undergoing commissioning and is expected to enter commercial operation in 2017.

The Chashma site - also referred to as Chasnupp - is already home to two Chinese-supplied 300 MWe PWRs: unit 1, in commercial operation since 2000, and unit 2, in commercial operation since 2011. Pakistan also has a 125 MWe Canadian-supplied pressurized heavy water reactor, Karachi unit 1, which has been in commercial operation since 1972.

Two 1161 MWe Chinese-supplied Hualong One plants are also planned at the Karachi site. A ground-breaking ceremony for Karachi 2 was held in August 2015, and the units are scheduled to enter service in 2021 and 2022.

Pakistan is not a party to the international nuclear non-proliferation treaty, but its civil power reactors and its two research reactors all operate under International Atomic Energy Agency safeguards.



http://www.world-nuclear-news.org/NN-Grid-connection-for-Pakistans-fourth-reactor-1710167.html

 

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China's first molten salt solar thermal plant sends power to grid
Source: Xinhua 2016-10-23 13:44:43

TIANJIN, Oct. 23 (Xinhua) -- China's first molten salt solar thermal power plant has started to send electricity to the grid, said the developer based in north China's Tianjin municipality on Sunday.

Known as concentrated solar power, solar thermal energy is believed to be the next generation of solar energy, and an ideal green power source for energy-hungry countries like China.

The Tianjin Binhai Concentrating Solar Power Investment Co. Ltd. said its 50-megawatt molten salt trough project in Akesai in northwest China's Gansu Province shows the maturity of the commercial development of solar thermal technology.

Guan Jingdong, chair of the company, said that the company will carry out large-scale production with the technology in 2018, when it is scheduled to produce facilities with 200,000 kilowatts of annual solar power output.

Molten salt solar thermal plants can harness solar energy by using molten salt as a heat transfer medium.

The Akesai plant was among 20 demonstration solar thermal plants listed for construction by China's National Energy Administration in September as the government eyes the potential of renewable energy.

 

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Greece’s PPC Sells Stake in Electricity Operator ADMIE to China’s State Grid
November 1, 2016

Greece’s power utility PPC announced on Wednesday that China’s State Grid Corporation (SGCC) has submitted the winning bid for a 24 percent stake in grid operator ADMIE, offering 320 million euros. PPC’s board of directors said a final decision will be made on November 24, during PPC shareholders’ general assembly.

SGCC is the world’s largest power company. It serves more than 1.1 billion Chinese consumers and operating grids in the Philippines, Brazil, Portugal, Australia and Italy.

Read more at http://www.wsj.com/articles/greeces...perator-admie-to-chinas-state-grid-1477935773

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China State Grid Quietly Builds Mediterranean Power Network
Sunday, 10 August 2014 | MYT 5:59 PM

PARIS/HONG KONG/MILAN: The European Commission has long wanted the continent's power grids to work in unison for reasons of efficiency and supply security, so far to little avail, but a regional power network could soon be a reality, courtesy of State Grid Corporation of China.

While Europe's utilities have met hostility to cross-border forays and been outbid by infrastructure funds, State Grid, the world's largest utility by revenues, with its deep pockets and reputation for hands-off management, has had an easier ride, buying minority stakes in Portuguese and Italian grid operators and pursuing designs on Greece and Spain, too.

If all goes to plan, it would become the first utility to build a major regional electricity grid portfolio, a feat that the Commission had hoped Europe's big grid operators would have achieved in the five years since it forced the separation of the grids from power production to increase market competition.

For wholly state-owned State Grid, which distributes electricity to 1.1 billion people across 90 percent of China, the appeal of the consistent, regulated income from European power assets is obvious. A State Grid official familiar with its overseas strategy said projects abroad typically yield high single-digit to double-digit returns, compared with low single digits at home. Its relatively low yield requirements give it an edge over Western infrastructure funds and European sector peers. In a recent statement, an official in State Grid's international business department said it was actively investing in regulated electricity assets and realising steady returns.

"When we make overseas investment, we are not doing charity," he said.​

As State Grid builds up its portfolio, it could start thinking about linking up its assets across the region; the ownership of several grids by one operator allows easier cross-country power-load balancing, so it doesn't get caught out by peaks in one area and can shift power within its own network rather than being forced to parlay with a competitor.

STRATEGIC POSITIONING

In 2012, State Grid bought 25 percent of Portuguese grid operator REN, then last month it entered Italy with a deal to buy 35 percent of CDP Reti for at least 2.1 billion euros ($2.8 billion).

CDP Reti owns 30 percent of gas transport group Snam and is set to receive a similar stake in power grid Terna.

State Grid, with Terna and Belgium's Elia, is also bidding for 66 percent of Greek grid operator ADMIE, sources told Reuters in May, and is interested in bidding for German utility E.ON's northern Spanish grid, which serves 650,000 customers and could sell for as much 1 billion euros, a source familiar with the parties told Reuters.

"After the recent investments of SGCC in South Europe, there is indeed a strategic positioning within the region," ADMIE Chairman and CEO Yiannis Yiarentis told Reuters.​

Patient and discreet, State Grid only invests where it is welcome, shying away from hostile bids, and has seized on the opportunities afforded by privatisations in cash-strapped southern euro zone countries. State Grid Executive Vice President Zheng Baosen told Reuters last year China was ready to invest further in European utilities "if the price is right".

In addition to Europe, it has made major investments in power grids in Brazil, the Philippines, Australia and Hong Kong. Its total overseas assets now exceed $23 billion, and the profits of its overseas operations rose to 3.2 billion yuan ($520 million) in 2013 from 800 million in 2009.

An official at a Brussels-based utilities lobby said Chinese utilities have huge ambitions in Europe and are sending countless missions to ask for advice on where to invest.

Besides China's grid operator, its power producers are also breaking into Europe. In 2011, China Three Gorges paid 2.7 billion euros for a 21 percent stake in Energias de Portugal, and EDP chief executive Antonio Mexia has said his shareholder is looking at other opportunities in Europe. In October, China General Nuclear Corporation and China National Nuclear Corporation agreed to take a joint 30-40 percent stake in an EDF-led consortium to build a 16 billion pound nuclear plant in Britain.

http://www.thestar.com.my/business/...d-quietly-builds-mediterranean-power-network/
https://www.yahoo.com/news/italy-agrees-sell-energy-grid-stake-china-202430213.html?ref=gs
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-italy-china-idUSKBN0FT1H020140724


China Envisions Global Renewable Energy Grid
April 8th, 2016 by Steve Hanley

China has a plan to build a global renewable energy grid. Liu Zhenya is chairman of the State Grid Corporation of China (SGCC), largest power operator in the world. This week, he told the 2016 Global Energy Interconnection conference in Beijing,

“We have the capacity to enable much greater use of renewable energy by interconnecting the world’s energy grids.”​

Liu has a plan. It includes massive wind farms in the Arctic and giant solar panel installations at the Equator. All of the power generated would be transmitted and shared with the people of the world via ultra high voltage grids. The plan is technically feasible, Liu says. In fact, China is already using UHV grids to transmit electricity over vast distances.

Liu says his vision could be in place by 2050 and supply the entire world with all the clean, renewable electrical power it needs. The cost? A staggering $50 trillion dollars.

The plan has three components, according to Futurism.com. Between now and the year 2020, the nations of the world need to promote clean energy development, domestic grid interconnection and smart grid construction. By 2030, large energy bases will be established and grids will be interconnected among countries within the various continents. By 2050, the polar wind farms and equatorial solar facilities will be created to complete the energy generation part of the proposal. Finding the political will to make Liu’s vision a reality will be a more difficult task than building the international grid he proposes.

“Enterprise innovation is one of the most important factors driving global sustainable developments. Innovative enterprises take the lead in creating sustainable development strategies, innovate to improve energy efficiency, actively reduce carbon emissions from their operations and strengthen their cooperation with governments, international organizations and social institutions in order to make a positive contribution to global low carbon and green developments,” writes Mr Liu at Global Compact 15.org. ​

When it comes to renewable energy, China gets it. In the past 30 years it has done what the western world did in 150 years. It went from an agrarian economy to perhaps the greatest manufacturing nation the world has ever seen. And it did it all thanks to abundant, inexpensive electrical power from hundreds of coal fired generating plants.

While all that electricity made China’s economic miracle possible, it also turned the air over is cities into a poisonous stew that started slowly killing its citizens. China may or may not be concerned with global climate change, but it recognizes that decimating its population by immersing them in pollution is not a viable long term political strategy. It has committed to enormous renewable energy projects and is decommissioning those coal fired facilities as rapidly as possible.

If only America’s political leaders could see things so clearly. Here we still have senior political leaders like Mitch McConnell who suck at the breast of wealthy fossil fuel interests. They are perfectly happy to see their own constituents get sick and die, just as long as the money from polluters like Koch Industries keeps pouring into their campaign coffers. Something to think about when we enter the voting booth in November.

http://gas2.org/2016/04/08/china-global-renewable-energy-grid/

 

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Nuclear power plants using howngrown Hualong One technology set to begin operation in 2020
(People's Daily Online) 14:43, November 01, 2016

A model of Hualong One nuclear reactor. File photo.​

“We have drawn on global experience over the years, and have integrated advanced design concepts including AP1000 and EPR to ensure the safety of the Hualong One nuclear project. The reactors can even withstand a tsunami of the strength that triggered Japan’s Fukushima disaster,” said Xue Junfeng, vice chief engineer of China's Hualong One reactors.

Two nuclear facilities using Hualong One technology, a domestically developed third-generation reactor design, are under construction at the site of the Fuqing nuclear plant in eastern China’s Fujian province. The construction is on schedule, with the plant slated to begin operation by 2020.

The reactors are made in accordance with the world’s top safety standards. They are able to withstand a level 17 typhoon, a magnitude 9 earthquake and the force of a collision with a commercial airplane. The reactors can also activate a series of protective measures when external power is cut off, according to Chen Guocai, vice chief manager of Fujian Fuqing Nuclear Power Co. Ltd., affiliated with China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC).

The Hualong One reactors are fully compliant with all safety standards set by the International Atomic Energy Agency, making them suitable to be sold outside of China. More than 20 countries, including Britain, Argentina, Egypt and Pakistan, have signed agreements with China to adopt Hualong One technology.

The Hualong One reactor was jointly designed by two nuclear power giants, China General Nuclear Power Group and CNNC. It passed inspection by a national expert panel in August 2014. In November 2014, the National Energy Administration approved the use of Hualong One technology to build two reactors in Fujian province. The State Council approved the construction in April 2015.

 

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State Grid of China Corp (SGCC) should continue with global construction of UHV grid, smart grid.

Power Play: China’s Ultra High Voltage Technology and Global Standards
Inaugural paper in a new series of "Paulson Papers on Standards" uses China’s development of indigenous UHV technologies as a prism through which to view China’s emerging role as a global standard-setter.

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As a matter of government policy and corporate strategy, China has been intensifying its effort to set indigenous standards for homegrown ultra-high voltage (UHV) transmission technology. The country also aims to contribute to UHV standards internationally. Indeed, this process of standard setting, influenced by both economics and politics, will have ramifications far beyond China’s borders. The potential internationalization of China’s domestic UHV standards will almost certainly affect the global market share for both Chinese manufacturers and dominant multinational companies.

http://www.paulsoninstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/PPS_UHV_English.pdf

http://www.paulsoninstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/PPS_UHV_Chinese.pdf​

Two factors are creating a window of opportunity for Chinese UHV technologies to gain international acceptance and become the de facto global standard:

first, China is the only country currently deploying UHV technology on a large scale;

second, no international UHV standard has yet prevailed. China’s effort to internationalize its own UHV standards, then, could yield greater global market share for Chinese UHV technologies.​

In fact, China has already made some modest progress in becoming the default standard-setter for UHV projects outside its borders, in part by growing its global market share. One example is the joint development of a Sino-Brazilian UHV project. Another is the successful effort to promote three indigenous Chinese UHV AC standards as international standards of the global Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).

This paper delves deeply into these developments. It explores China’s UHV standardization process and the myriad challenges it faces, from a technical, economic, and political standpoint. But beyond simply detailing China’s strategy in pushing out its own UHV technology to the domestic and international markets, the paper discusses how China’s ambition for its indigenous technology could ultimately pose a considerable challenge to global competitors who hope to sell comparable products. The paper concludes by outlining several potential scenarios for how China’s UHV standardization process, and its relationship to global standard setting, may ultimately evolve.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Staff of the Center for Energy, Environmental, and Economic Systems Analysis, Argonne National Laboratory

This paper is jointly authored by staff members of the Center for Energy, Environmental, and Economic Systems Analysis (CEEESA), a constituent part of the Decision and Information Sciences Division of the Argonne National Laboratory. CEEESA activities focus in three areas: (1) power systems analysis, (2) energy systems analysis, and (3) environmental systems analysis. The unit’s multi-disciplinary staff has in-depth expertise in the scientific, engineering, and social science disciplines and extensive experience in deploying multi-disciplinary teams of specialists to address complex energy and environmental problems. CEEESA specializes in the development of innovative methodologies, systems, and analytical tools that can be used for energy, economic, and environmental systems analysis and to facilitate credible decisionmaking. CEEESA’s mission is to develop, apply, and transfer tools and techniques to analyze energy, environmental, and economic issues. The methodologies and tools it develops include computer-based simulation models of the energy system for national, regional, and international applications
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http://www.paulsoninstitute.org/thi...high-voltage-technology-and-global-standards/

 

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China builds its 1st marine nuclear power station
2016-11-05 07:39:31 CRIENGLISH.com

The construction of China's first marine nuclear power station began on Friday, November 4, 2016.

The floating nuclear plant, named ACPR50S and designed by China General Nuclear Power Corp (CGN), will provide electricity, heat and fresh water for marine resources exploration, as well as the everyday life and production of island residents.

CGN has released its contract with Dongfang Electric, a company that will provide reactor pressure vessels for key parts of the power station's experiment reactor.

Reactor pressure vessels have the longest production cycle in the whole project; therefore, they will largely determine how long the plant can be completed.

CGN is also going to use the VR technology to simulate the scenes of construction, which can help prevent and analyze accidents.

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China leads the world in renewable energy
CRI, November 3, 2016

Photo taken on Oct. 8, 2015 shows the wind turbines at the Tangshan wind power plant in Qixia City, east China's Shandong Province. [Xinhua]

A third of the world’s investment in renewable energy last year came from China, the head of the International Renewable Energy Agency has said.

Adnan Amin, director-general of IRENA which has 149 member states and works with governments to promote the adoption of sustainable energy sources, said that of $330 billion invested globally last year, $103 billion had come from China.

Addressing the International Forum on Energy Transitions, in Suzhou, Jiangsu province, Mr Amin said: “China is taking the lead in renewable energy development. Last year, China’s wind and hydropower newly-installed capacity accounted for more than half of the world’s total. Its photovoltaic newly-installed capacity accounted for one third.”

An IRENA report said in June that the cost of photovoltaic power would drop by 59 per cent by 2025, based on the $0.50 average price of a kilowatt in 2015. Wind-generated power will fall by 35 per cent for offshore sources and 25 per cent for on-land farms in the same period.

China was praised last year for its efforts in renewable energy by the Agence Internationale de l’?nergie, an intragovernmental OECD agency based in Paris that advises its 29 member states on energy policy. Maria van der Hoeven, then the chief executive, noted that China was spending as much as Europe and the USA combined on clean energy, and said: “People think about China in a way more representative of previous decades.”

The reality, she said, was that China’s coal-powered stations were state-of-the-art and should be imitated by other developing countries.

China should be given more credit for its investments in clean energy, she said. “They are now the largest wind-power market in the world. They have increased their power generation from renewables from really nothing ten years ago. China is moving in the right direction.”

Last year Beijing was among the first governments to submit its plans for reducing carbon emissions under the UN drive to control global climate change. It set out impressive goals, including peaking its emissions by 2030 or sooner and increasing its low-carbon energy sources to 20 per cent of the total. This summer plans were ratified by China and the US that helped to create a domino effect of pledges under last year’s Paris Agreement on climate change.

Donald Trump, the Republican nominee for the US presidency, has said that he will “cancel” any agreements to limit America’s greenhouse gas emissions in any way as well as boost the country’s dying coal industry. Mr Trump has said repeatedly that man-made climate change is a hoax, and tweeted in 2012 that “the concept of global warming was created by and for the Chinese in order to make US manufacturing non-competitive”.

 

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China to have 58 mln kw nuclear power by 2020
Xinhua, November 7, 2016

A crane lifts the containment top head to cap the first unit of the Haiyang Nuclear Power Plant in Haiyang, east China's Shandong Province. [File photo]

China will have 58 million kilowatts of installed nuclear power by 2020 as it expands its clean energy network and pursues green growth, the country's energy regulator announced Monday.

The government will have around 30 million kw of nulcear energy facility going into operation and over 30 million kw of such facility under construction in the next five years, according to the 13th Five-Year Plan for power development released by the National Energy Administration and the National Development and Reform Commission.

China is expected to require about 6.8 trillion to 7.2 trillion kw of power by 2020, with per capita power consumption of about 5,000 kw, close to the level of medium-developed countries.

Non-fossil fuel will play a bigger role as the government aims to lift its share in total energy consumption to about 15 percent by the end of 2020.

Installed capacity of hydropower, wind power and solar power will be about 340 million, 210 million and 110 million kw, respectively.

Meanwhile, installed capacity of coal-fired power will be restricted within 1.1 billion kw while natural-gas-fired power will reach over 110 million kw by 2020.

China will also promote smart grid development, address regional power supply imbalances and improve the power market rules, according to the development plan.

 

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China Says It's Going to Use More Coal, With Capacity Set to Grow 19%
by Aibing Guo
November 7, 2016, 9:59 PM GMT+11 November 8, 2016, 10:00 AM GMT+11

China’s coal power generation capacity will grow as much as 19 percent over the next five years even as the world’s biggest energy consumer expands use of non-fossil fuels.

While coal-fired plant capacity will increase, it will still remain below 1,100 gigawatts, National Energy Administration Chief Engineer Han Shui said Monday in a webcast posted on the agency’s website. Non-fossil power will increase 48 percent to about 770 gigawatts over the five-year period through 2020 as total capacity expands by 31 percent to 2,000 gigawatts.

President Xi Jinping’s government is seeking to replace coal with cleaner fuels to help cut pollution that has plagued some of China’s biggest cities including Beijing, Tianjin and Shanghai. The country has said it plans to raise natural gas consumption to 10 percent of its total energy mix by 2020 from around 6 percent now.

“Coal consumption growth over the next five years is projected to be stronger than previously expected,” Helen Lau, an analyst at Argonaut Securities Asia Ltd., said by phone. “That implies that coal production must not be reduced further, otherwise, the coal market will be in deficit.”

China will need to cut about 150 gigawatts of coal-fired power from projects that are either approved for construction or already under construction to maintain the 1,100-gigawatt limit, Huang Xuenong, director of the power generation division of NEA said during the webcast. Without restrictions the country’s coal-fired power capacity could reach about 1,250 gigawatts by 2020, he said.

Hydro-power will account for about 340 gigawatts of the projected 770 gigawatts of non-fossil-fuel generation capacity by 2020. Wind will make up about 210 gigawatts and nuclear power 58 gigawatts, according to the NEA.

China’s total power consumption may increase to between 6.8 trillion kilowatt hours to 7.2 trillion kilowatt hours by 2020, with an average annual increase of about 3.6 percent to 4.8 percent from 2016 to 2020.

Principal sources of US electricity in 2014 were: coal (39%), natural gas (27%), nuclear (19%), Hydro (6%), and other renewables (7%). Over the decade 2004—2014, the largest increases in electrical generation came from natural gas (2014 generation was 412 billion kWh greater than 2004), wind (increase of 168 billion kWh) and solar (increased 18 billion kWh). Over the same decade, annual generation from coal decreased 393 billion kWh, and from petroleum decreased 90 billion kWh

In 2014 the total US consumption of electric energy was 4,146.2 Terawatt hours (TWh) (or million MWh or billion kWh). US electrical consumption is about flat because at 1-2% GDP growth the increase can be achieved with more efficiency in home, factory and business equipment and facilities.

China's 3.6%-4.8% increase in electricity usage suggests a continued 7 to 7.5% GDP growth plan.




China may be planning to export coal generated electricity to Europe, via ultra high voltage power lines, to arbitrage permanent structural price differences between restrictive European Paris Agreement pledges, and the Chinese commitment to do whatever they want.

China is seeking to build up export markets for its power amid signs the nation has invested too much in new generation plants.

State Grid Corp. of China, which runs the majority of the nation’s electricity distribution network, is considering how to build links to India, South Korea, Japan and Southeast Asia, a move that would require billions of dollars of investment in long-distance, high-voltage power lines.

Interconnections would allow grid managers throughout the region to more flexibility use variable supplies coming from wind and solar farms cropping up from Vietnam to Mongolia. For China, the links would provide customers for power from hundreds of power plants finished in the past few years as demand in its domestic market stagnates.

“We can export to India and Southeast Asia where the power supply is inadequate,” Zhang Qiping, chief engineer of State Grid, said Tuesday at a conference hosted by Bloomberg New Energy Finance in Shanghai.

Signals pointing toward the priority that China places on inter-connectors emerged in March. Then, State Grid joined Tokyo-based wireless carrier SoftBank Group Corp., Korea Electric Power Corp. and Russian grid company Rosseti Pjsc in agreeing to research and plan for interconnected power grids in Northeast Asia as part of a plan dubbed “Asia Super Grid.”




State Grid’s Wang has also proposed an ultra-high-voltage global power network to transmit electricity from country to country and continent to continent, with costs estimated at $50 trillion to develop by 2050.

"It’s doable in technology," said Wang, adding current ultra-high voltage lines can transmit as much as 15 gigawatts of power through 5,000 kilometers.

Officials in China have high hopes of landing ultra high voltage electricity transmission projects in India

China's top electricity supplier, State Grid Corp, is set to export its ultra-high-voltage technology to India soon, as it pushes to expand its large-scale network both at home and abroad, a senior official at the utility company said.

"We have been having talks in India about testing some ultra-high-voltage projects. Those talks are at an early stage, but there is a great chance that some Chinese technology will be used," said Li Peng, head of the high-voltage division at China Electric Power Research Institute, a unit of the State-owned utility company.

The talks concern ultra-high-voltage or UHV technology, which provides large-scale power delivery over long distances and can reduce energy loss during transmission, he said.

"China is a country with rich experience in building large-scale power transmission infrastructure, so it has become the first choice for other countries in need," he told China Daily.

Li made his remarks at a forum in Tianjin, where a 1,000-kilovolt transmission project is expected to be completed by October, marking the latest effort by State Grid to ease power shortages in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region.


A State Grid employee works on an ultra-high-voltage transmission construction in Huainan, Anhui province. [Photo for China Daily by Song Weixing]



Beijing-based State Grid is building an ultra-high-voltage cross-country transmission network in the world's biggest energy-consuming market, that will link major hydropower plants and coal-fired plants in the far southwest and northwest with big energy-consuming regions in the east.

The company plans to use its domestic experience to win more exports of its technology and equipment. Last year it inked framework deals with Russia and Kazakhstan for cross-country electricity transmission lines.
State Grid also scored with its bid to build and operate two transmission lines connecting the Belo Monte Amazon dam in northern Brazil to the southeast of the country, the first ultra-high-voltage transmission project it won overseas.

 

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Officials in China have high hopes of landing ultra high voltage electricity transmission projects in India

China's top electricity supplier, State Grid Corp, is set to export its ultra-high-voltage technology to India soon, as it pushes to expand its large-scale network both at home and abroad, a senior official at the utility company said.

"We have been having talks in India about testing some ultra-high-voltage projects. Those talks are at an early stage, but there is a great chance that some Chinese technology will be used," said Li Peng, head of the high-voltage division at China Electric Power Research Institute, a unit of the State-owned utility company.

State Grid ready for ultra-high-voltage tech exports

Officials have high hopes of landing ultra high voltage electricity transmission projects in India

China's top electricity supplier, State Grid Corp, is set to export its ultra-high-voltage technology to India soon, as it pushes to expand its large-scale network both at home and abroad, a senior official at the utility company said.
"We have been having talks in India about testing some ultra-high-voltage projects. Those talks are at an early stage, but there is a great chance that some Chinese technology will be used," said Li Peng, head of the high-voltage division at China Electric Power Research Institute, a unit of the State-owned utility company.

The talks concern ultra-high-voltage or UHV technology, which provides large-scale power delivery over long distances and can reduce energy loss during transmission, he said.

"China is a country with rich experience in building large-scale power transmission infrastructure, so it has become the first choice for other countries in need," he told China Daily.

Li made his remarks at a forum in Tianjin, where a 1,000-kilovolt transmission project is expected to be completed by October, marking the latest effort by State Grid to ease power shortages in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region.

After its completion, Tianjin will be able to receive as much as 50 billion kilowatt-hours of renewable energy, including solar and wind power, from Inner Mongolia autonomous region, said Wang Bin, manager of the Tianjin transmission project. He said that would slash coal consumption by 9 million metric tons.

Beijing-based State Grid is building an ultra-high-voltage cross-country transmission network in the world's biggest energy-consuming market, that will link major hydropower plants and coal-fired plants in the far southwest and northwest with big energy-consuming regions in the east.

The company plans to use its domestic experience to win more exports of its technology and equipment. Last year it inked framework deals with Russia and Kazakhstan for cross-country electricity transmission lines.

State Grid also scored with its bid to build and operate two transmission lines connecting the Belo Monte Amazon dam in northern Brazil to the southeast of the country, the first ultra-high-voltage transmission project it won overseas.

http://europe.chinadaily.com.cn/business/2016-06/03/content_25599944.htm

 

[AndrewJin]

Yes, infrastructure is still our lowest batten of a barrel.
Even in Shanghai and Beijing, so many things should be done.
Even in my city (GDP per capita is higer than Shanghai btw), we have so many energy, transport, education, hospital and sport infra projects ongoing....

I have introduced some aspects of Fujian Province' 13th 5-year-plan.
https://defence.pk/threads/china-co...he-world-combined.457241/page-17#post-8841324

Key energy projects
Pipeline natural gas to every county, 3600km pipeline by 2020
installed capacity 70,000MW
500kv high-voltage transmission corridors and smart grid lower than 220kv
Ningde, Fuqing, Zhangzhou nuclear power station
double the current wind energy capacity and build a national-level offshore wind energy reach centre

 

[GS Zhou]

Yes, infrastructure is still our lowest batten of a barrel.

我就喜欢你这种低调朴实的炫耀。

yes, I fully agree with your point. We should seize the current chances, where the overall factor cost is still relatively low, to complete all the important infrastructures!