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South China Morning Post, Friday, November 10, 2000

ENERGY

Sino-Thai power sharing deal struck

JULIA HAN

Updated at 12.45pm, Friday:
Power authorities from China and Thailand recently
signed an investment agreement to jointly exploit the
hydroelectric power in Yunnan Province, Xinhua
News Agency reported on Friday.

The Jinghong Hydropower Station in southwest
Yunnan Province will cost 10 billion yuan (about
HK$9.2 billion). According to the agreement,
Thailand will own 70 per cent of the station while
China will hold the remaining 30 per cent.

The construction of the power station is to start in
2006 and the station will begin to supply 1.5 million
kilowatts of power to Thailand annually from 2013,
according to Yang Xiangze, vice general-manager of
the Yunnan Power Group Company.

The Jinghong Hydropower Station is located in the
suburb of Jinghong City in south Yunnan's
Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture, 300
kilometres north of Thailand. With an installed
capacity of 1.5 million kilowatts, the station is one of
the eight power stations planned on the Lancang
River, in the upper reaches of the Mekong River.

The Yunnan Power Company and the Thailand's
GMS Company have set up a consultancy firm to take
charge of the preparation work.

According to Mr Yang, Yunnan is planning to
complete the 5.5 million kilowatts Nuozhadu
Hydropower Station in 2005, which will send 1.5
million kilowatts of electricity to the neighbouring
Thailand annually from 2014.

Yunnan boasts rich water energy resources, with
about 90 million kilowatts of exploitable installed
capacity, or 23 per cent of the national total. The
province now has 7 million kilowatts of installed
capacity and 70 per cent is from hydropower. In
addition to meeting its own power demand, the
province will, as part of China's west-east power
transmission project, send electricity to the
power-hungry southern China.






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