Originally published February 15 2006
Official claims China's power shortage will end in 2007
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
Zhang Guobao, vice minister of the National Development and Reform Commission, has stated publicly that China's energy shortage will end by 2007, thanks to growing installation of supercritical generating units.
WITH the fast growth of total installed capacity, China's power shortage will be significantly eased in 2006, and come to an end in 2007, said Zhang Guobao, vice minister of the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) recently.
A 600,000 kilowatt (kW) supercritical generating unit was put into official production Dec. 27 in a power plant of Shenhua Group in Ninghai County, East China's Zhejiang Province.
China's total installed capacity now tops 500 million kW.
The country's newly built installed capacity in 2005 had thus exceeded 60 million kW, and its annual electric energy production will reach 2.4 trillion kWh, said Zhang.
While launching a large number of high-capacity generating units, China's power industry has attached importance to changing the extensive production mode and developing water and coal efficiency, low-emission and environmental protection, Zhang added.
At the end of 2004, thermal power, hydropower, nuclear power and wind power accounted for 73.7 percent, 24.5 percent, 1.6 percent and 0.2 percent of the country's total installed capacity respectively.
However, the proportion of large-capacity generating units, nuclear power and wind power will see a big increase in the 11th Five-Year Development Program (2006-2010), predicted the NDRC.
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