China Resources Haifeng Power Plant CCS Plan

Wednesday, December 18, 2013

Zhu Heping, CTO of China Resources Haifeng Power Plant, attended the 1st Guangdong International CCUS Expert Workshop and UK-China (Guangdong) CCUS Centre Launch Ceremony hold on December 18, 2013, making an introduction on China Resources Haifeng Power Plant 2 x 1000MW USCPC Project CCUS Demonstration Plan.

Mr. Zhu made a brief introduction on CRG (China Resources Group) and CRP (China Resources Power). China Resources Group is one of the 53 state-owned key enterprises, directly supervised by the state council and highly related to the national economy and the people’s livehood, headquarter set in Hongkong. China Resources Enterprise, Limited, China Resources Power Holdings Company Limited and China Resources Land Limited under the management of the Group are listed as Hang Seng Index constituent stocks. China Resources is ranked the 187th of the Global 500 by latest Fortune ranking. Since 2005, China Resources has been continuingly rated as A grade central enterprise by Sate Asset Regulatory Committee.

Established on 27 Aug 2013, China Resources Power is a Main Listed company under China Resources Group in HK and a member of HK Hang Seng Index constituent stocks (blue chip). The company’s major business involves investment, development, operation and management of power plant, invests, operate, managing power generating related coal mine project and logistics system. By the end of 2012, Company has HKD 177.7b total assets, in total 70 power plants, with total equity capacity 25.7GW, control 33.5 million tonne coal production capacity.

According to Director Zhu, China Resources Haifeng Power Plant was built by China Resources Power Holding Limited, it’s China Resources’ first power generating unit power project with megawatt capacity invested in Guangdong, site located in Xiaomo town, Haifeng contry, Shanwei city, Guangdong province, planned total capacity are 4×1000MW+4×1000MW units, construction in phase. Phase 1 units 1 and 2 are 2×1000MW ultra-supercritical coal-fired power units, and will construct a 100000 tons dedicated unload coal wharf, total investment around 8.3 billion RMB, approved by National Development and Reform Committee on 13 July 2011, and started construction in Oct 2011, currently under construction, two units plan to put into operation by Dec 2014 and April 2015.  

Following the planning of China Resources Power Holding Limited, China Resources Haifeng power plant will officially launch unit 3 and 4 expansion early stage work in early August 2011. On16 December 2011, China Resources Power and Shanwei city government signed a cooperation agreement to expand China Resources Haifeng Power Plant Units 3 and 4. On 4 December, project completed feasibility research report audit. On 29 December 2012, China Resources Haifeng Power Plant Phase 1 Units 3 and 4 early stage work application has been submitted to Guangdong’s DRC. The preliminary research of the project is in progress.

On 27 June 2013, Guangdong’s DRC held the first CCUS Demo project coordination meeting, approving China Resources as the leading organization for Guangdong CCUS demonstration, clearly stating that China Resources Haifeng Power Plant Phase 1 Unit 3 and 4 2×1000 MW expansion project as the first CCUS Demo project in Guangdong, providing CCUS ready interface installation scheme in feasibility study stage.

Currently, Guangdong Electricity Power Design Institute is working on the CCUS ready interface design scheme with the support of University of Edinsburge, initially supply the condition for carry out the land and waters acquisition. Next step, with the great support of government and partner, we will based on the comparison of advanced and economic carbon capture process program, select the best implementable scheme, firmly accelerate the CCUS demonstration work of China Resources Haifeng project.