Southern China province plans power storage station
( 2003-06-27 15:15) (China Daily)
South China's Guangdong province has planned to invest 8 billion
yuan (nearly US$1 billion) to build a power storage hydroelectric station, local
officials said on Thursday.
Construction of the project is scheduled to start next year. Its first
generating unit is expected to produce power in 2008 and the remaining seven
generating units will be operational in 2011.
The station, to be located in Huizhou City, has a designed capacity of 2,400
megawatts, capable of generating 4.562 billion kwh of electricity a year.
Local officials said the station is part of China's gigantic project to
transmit power from its energy-rich west to its east.
Guangdong, which accounts for one third of the country's foreign trade, has
been suffering from a shortage of energy.
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