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chu, and Kaohsiung in the south. Staterun
electricity company Taiwan Power
Co. in a Facebook post said the incident
was prompted by a malfunction at Taiwan's
biggest power plant, the 4.3-GW
coal-fired Hsinta facility in Kaohsiung.
The malfunction caused a nearby substation
to trip, triggering a cascading
event that affected parts of northern
and central Taiwan, the company suggested.
The massive blackout is the second
in two years. In May 2021, several
cities, including Taipei, endured rolling
blackouts after a trip at the Hsinta plant,
though Taipower then pointed to insufficient
electricity supply, exacerbated by
reduced hydropower output.
AES Plans Coal Exit by 2025. AES
Corp., a Virginia-based power company
that has international assets, including
in Latin America, on Feb. 24 announced
an intent to exit coal by 2025. Previously,
the company expected to reduce
its coal generation to less than 10% of
total generation by year-end 2025. The
company said it would shutter its existing
7.5-GW coal fleet through " a combination
of asset sales, fuel conversions,
and retirements, while maintaining
reliability and affordability, and subject
to necessary approvals. " From 2022
through 2025, AES expects to receive
$1 billion in asset sale proceeds, compared
to its prior expectation of receiving
$500 million of asset sale proceeds.
In 2021, AES completed construction or
the acquisition of 2 GW of renewables
and energy storage, including 1.1 GW of
solar, wind, and energy storage in the
U.S.; 859 MW of hydro, wind, energy
storage, and solar in Chile, Brazil, and
Colombia; and 91 MW of solar in Panama
and the Dominican Republic.
The Philippines and Nigeria Mulling
Nuclear. Philippines President Rodrigo
Duterte on Feb. 28 signed an executive
order that supports the inclusion of nuclear
energy in the island nation's future
energy mix to bolster sustainability, reliability,
and energy affordability targets.
Executive Order No. 164 follows a prefeasibility
study and a public consultation
conducted by the country's Nuclear
Energy Programme Inter-Agency Committee
(NEP-IAC). The executive order
directs the Department of Energy
(DOE) to develop and implement the
Nuclear Energy Programme. Efforts will
include further studies on the viability
of the Bataan nuclear power plant as
well as other facilities. While construction
of Bataan 1, a 621-MW Westinghouse
pressurized water reactor, was
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completed in 1984, it was never loaded
with fuel or operated owing to financial
and safety concerns. According to the
World Nuclear Association, while the
plant was " mothballed " in response
to the 1986 Chernobyl accident, it has
been maintained at a cost of $800,000
per year.
Meanwhile, Dr. Yau Idris, director-general
of the Nigerian Nuclear Regulatory
Agency, on March 2, disclosed the country
has commenced a bidding process to
build a four-unit nuclear power plant that
could have a capacity of as much as 4
GW. Speaking at the Nigerian International
Energy Summit in Abuja, Idris said
the nuclear plant, which would be Nigeria's
biggest power installation, could
significantly improve the West African
country's power
generation
capacity.
Nigeria, a member of the International
Atomic Energy Agency, must adhere
to strict requirements for bids, which
posit that necessary infrastructure must
be developed " to the point of readiness "
for a bidding process to acquire
a nuclear plant. The preparatory phase
preceding the bidding process includes
numerous activities, such as energy
system planning, siting and feasibility
studies, environmental impact assessment,
development of nuclear-related
legislation, financing, and organization
of a regulatory authority.
First Criticality for Pakistan Nuclear
Plant. China National Nuclear Corp.
(CNNC) on March 4 connected Karachi
3, a 1,100-MW Chinese-designed Hualong
One reactor, to the grid, becoming
the fourth Hualong One reactor in the
world to reach the milestone. Karachi 3
is the second of two Hualong One units
to be built near Paradise Point in the
province of Sindh. Construction of Karachi
2 and Karachi 3 began in 2015 and
2016, respectively. Karachi 2 entered
commercial operation in May 2021. The
units are notably CNNC's first exports
of the Hualong One. CNNC and China
Nuclear Engineering and Construction
Corp. were selected to build the
PKR 959 billion ($9.6 billion) project on
a turnkey basis. Karachi 3, which completed
hot functional tests in November
2021, is slated to enter commercial operation
later in 2022. Grid connection
marks a significant milestone for the
nation, which plans to install 8.8 GW
of nuclear capacity by 2030 and 40 GW
by 2050. Karachi 1, a 100-MWe Canadian
pressurized heavy water reactor,
shut down in 2021 after 50 years of operation.
However, along with Karachi 2,
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Pakistan operates four CNNC-supplied
CNP-300 pressurized water reactors
at Chashma in Punjab. So far, another
1,100 MW Hualong One is under consideration
for the 1,215 MW Chashma
nuclear plant.
German Transmission Operator Readying
for Massive Power Demand Ramp
Up. German power transmission system
operator (TSO) 50Hertz on Feb. 24 forecast
a 30% to 40% increase in electricity
demand in its grid area that covers
the eastern German territorial states,
Berlin, and Hamburg by 2030. The expansive
demand growth will be spurred
by the electrification of the industrial,
transport, and heating sectors, it said.
" [M]ore and more existing industries
are decarbonizing their processes, and
new, energy-intensive companies will
settle, due to the existing high share
of renewables in electricity consumption
in the 50Hertz area, " it predicted.
In 2021, electricity consumption in
50Hertz's grid area had already risen by
3% year-on-year to 103 TWh. The TSO
said it will invest €5.6 billion in power
transmission grids over the 2022-2026
period to boost the connection capacity
for large offshore wind parks in the
Baltic and the North Sea from the current
1 GW to 7 GW in 2030. German energy
regulator Federal Network Agency
(Bundesnetzagentur) last year approved
the TSO's Grid Development Plan 2035,
which considers about 500 kilometers
of new grid reinforcement and expansion
investments in eastern Germany
and Hamburg by 2035. Plans include a
high-voltage direct current line between
Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and
the North Frisian coast.
Eskom Gets Moderate Tariff Hike.
The National Energy Regulator of South
Africa (Nersa) on Feb. 24 granted struggling
state-owned power utility Eskom a
tariff hike of an average of 9.61% for its
2022/23 financial year. While the hike is
much lower than the 20.5% Eskom had
applied for, Eskom has indicated it plans
to ask for a further 15.07% increase in
2024 and a 10% increase in 2025. Eskom
said the increase was partly being
driven by purchases from independent
power producers and carbon taxes, two
costs that it said are outside of its direct
control. These two costs alone make up
about 13.8% of the requested increase,
it said. Eskom receives various forms
of government support, including direct
equity injections. ■
-Sonal Patel is a POWER senior
associate editor.
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