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Henan Zhengzhou Grid Connected Natural Gas Combined Cycle Power Plant (the “Project”, or the “proposed project”) is situated in the Zhengzhou City of Henan Province, and it is to be built as a grid- connected electricity generation plant using natural gas (NG) exploited from the gas fields in the Chadamu basin of Qinghai, Tarim basin of Xinjiang, and Shanganning region in the western areas of China.

Serving as a peak load balancing power plant, the proposed project has an annual installation capacity of 780 MW by 2×390 MW gas/steam turbines using combined cycle technology, running 3500h with a net electricity generation about 2598GWh to be sold into the Henan Grid, a sub-grid of an independent regional grid - Central China Grid (CCG), while an annual NG consumption of 525 million m3 is to be supplied on a firm basis according to a Fuel Supply Agreement signed.

The Project activity will result in a greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reductions about 691,502tons CO2 equivalent annually, in a 7x3 years of crediting period, resulting from the coal-dominated business-as- usual scenario in the CCG.

The Project will not only act as clean technology demonstration project, supply electricity to the grid, bring much better electricity peak load balancing efficiency, but also promote sustainable development of the host country and local area by means of: – Creating new job opportunities directly at the Project site during construction and operation, and indirectly at the pipeline construction and management of gas flow to the Project; – Improving people’s living standard;

–      Reducing greenhouse gas emissions compared with the business-as-usual scenario; –      Reducing other pollutants compared with the power generation in business-as-usual scenario; –      Demonstrating a model project for the dissemination of more environmental friendly technology in        power generation field where population condensed metropolitan cities are in great need in China; –      Improving the structure and peak load balancing function of the local grid; and –      Using NG transmitted by the national WEST to EAST natural gas program for supporting the        development in the western areas of China. 

CDM – Executive Board