(China Daily)
Updated: 2007-12-05 11:35

Ultra super-critical energy

China Huaneng Group, the nation's largest power producer, has completed construction of the Yuhuan thermal power plant, the largest ultra super-critical power plant in the world.

Located in Yuhuan in East China's Zhejiang Province, the power plant is the nation's first to use the most-advanced thermal power technology that can increase energy efficiency.

The plant includes four 1000-megawatt generating units, with the total investment of 15.6 billion yuan. The first phase of the plant, which includes two 1000-megawatt generating units, was finished in December 2006.

According to Huaneng, after running for half a year the energy efficiency of the number one generating unit is 45.4 percent, compared with 33.5 percent of the conventional thermal power plants in China. The coal consumption of the unit is 283.2 g per kilowatt-hour, compared with 366 g per kilowatt-hour in conventional units.

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