Jingneng Zhuozhou power station

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Jingneng Zhuozhou power station (京能河北涿州京源热电公司) is a 700-megawatt (MW) coal-fired power station in Hebei Province, China.

Location

The undated satellite photo below shows the plant in the city of Zhuozhou.

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Background on Project

Jingneng Power has proposed a supercritical coal-fired power station of 700 MW for the city of Zhuozhou. It is under construction and planned to be completed in 2017.

Project postponed, then unit 1 revived

July 2017: Plant postponed by government

In July 2017, the NEA released the "Guideline of Supply-Side Reform of the Coal Power Bubble". The Guideline included a draft list which slowed down or halted 185 coal-burning units across 21 provinces, totaling 107 GW. 114 coal units (65 GW) are ordered to slow down the construction progress during 2017 to 2020, and are not allowed to connect to the grid in 2017. In addition, 71 coal units (42 GW) were halted indefinitely for regulation violations. The list partly overlapped with the projects listed in the January NEA letter to 13 provinces.

Jingneng Zhuozhou power station Units 1-2 are among the postponed coal-burning units.

September 2017: Unit 1 suspension lifted

After political negotiations, China's National Energy Administration (NEA) released an updated list of postponed and halted coal projects on September 26, 2017. The new list contained 151 units totaling 95 gigawatts (GW). Jingneng Zhuozhou power station unit 1 was no longer on the list, but unit 2 was, suggesting unit 1 is not posponed.

For more information, see China's 2016/2017 Restrictions on Development of Coal-Fired Power Capacity.

Plant completed

Unit 1 was commissioned on November 11, 2017.

Unit 2 appeared on a July 2018 central government list of coal-fired units allowed to come online in 2018. It was commissioned on July 4, 2018.

Project Details

• Sponsor: Jingneng Power
• Parent company: Beijing Energy Investment Holding
• Location: Zhuozhou city, Zhuozhou County, Baoding Prefecture, Hebei Province, China
• Coordinates: 39.563323, 115.999182 (exact)
• Status: Operating
• Gross capacity: 700 MW (Units 1 & 2: 350 MW)
• Type: Supercritical
• Start year: 2017 (Unit 1), 2018 (Unit 2)
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