The No. 9 generation unit of the Beilun power plant, China's largest coal-burning electric plant, has been put into operation after 168 hours of full-load trial operation in Ningbo City of east China's Zhejiang Province, said its operator National Energy Corporation on Monday.
Multiple technologies, such as flue gas condensation, were applied in the one-million-kilowatt unit, resulting in a 60-percent reduction in pollutant emissions.
With the official commissioning of Unit 9, the plant's installed capacity of thermal power reached 7.34 million kilowatts.
There have been nine generating units at the Beilun power plant, including Units 8 and 9, each with a capacity of one million kilowatts.
Thanks to advanced technologies, the two units, both put into operation this year, have a coal consumption of 257.24 grams per kilowatt hour for power supply, setting a new benchmark for energy efficiency of similar units in China.
"With the commissioning of Unit 9, the Beilun power plant's nine units can generate approximately 176 million kilowatt-hours of electricity per day at full load, which can power more than 20 million households. The plant's annual power generation is expected to exceed 40 billion kilowatt-hours, supplying plenty of electricity to the whole east of China," said Sun Cheng, head of the engineering department at the Zhejiang Beilun power plant of National Energy Corporation.
New generation unit of China's largest themal power plant starts operating in Ningbo
