Datang Hunchun power station

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Datang Hunchun (Huichun) power station (大唐珲春发电厂一期) is a 660-megawatt (MW) coal-fired power plant in Jilin Province, China.

Location

The undated satellite photo below shows the plant in Ying'an, Hunchun.

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Background on Plant

Units 1-2 of 100 MW each were commissioned in 1989 and retired in 2007. Units 3-4 of 330 MW each was commissioned in 2006. The subcritical coal plant is owned by China Datang.

Expansion

Datang had proposed an additional unit 5 of 600 MW. It was among 15 projects cancelled by China's National Energy Administration (NEA) in September 2016.

Project Details of expansion

• Sponsor: China Datang
• Location: Ying'an, Hunchun, Yanbian, Jilin Province, China
• Coordinates: 42.8955556 , 130.2897222 (exact)
• Status: Cancelled
• Gross capacity: 600 MW
• Type: Supercritical
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