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government abruptly changed a regulation over the appointment
of power plant developers. " If built, the project could become
Indonesia's largest solar power plant. The vast Southeast
Asian archipelago of more than 17,500 islands is endowed with
some of the world's largest reserves of fossil fuels, but it has
set a target to produce 23% of its primary energy with renewables
by 2025. According to REN21, in 2018, the renewables
share stood at 13%.
CGN: Hongyanhe ACPR-1000 Reactors Delayed. Commercial
operation of Units 5 and 6 at the Hongyanhe nuclear power
plant in China's Liaoning province has been delayed by about
18 months China General Nuclear (CGN) announced in a
statement to the Hong Kong Stock Exchange on Dec. 27. CGN
holds a 45% stake in Liaoning Hongyanhe Nuclear Power
Co. (LHNP), the plant's owner and operator. State Power Investment
Corp. owns another 45% share and Dalian Municipal
Construction Investment Co. owns the remainder. CGN
said the delays stem from a " number of technical improvement
measures in the construction process of the project, "
and that it implemented the schedule adjustment to avoid construction-related
risks. The Hongyanhe Nuclear Power Plant, a
POWER magazine Top Plant in 2014, has four existing units,
all of CPR-1000 design. Construction of these units began in
August 2009. Units 1, 2, 3, and 4 began commercial operation
in June 2013, May 2014, August 2015, and September 2016,
respectively. Construction on Units 5 and 6, which are CGNdesigned
ACPR-1000 reactors, began in March 2015 and July
2015, respectively. CGN began cold functional testing of Unit 5
last October. CGN began operation of China's first ACPR-1000
at Yangjiang 5 in July 2018 following a stunning 58-month construction
period (the project was a 2019 POWER Top Plant).
Another ACPR-1000, Yangjiang 6, came online in July 2019. The
plant has been pivotal in providing lessons for the country's
ACPR-1000 units at Hongyanhe 5 and 6, and Tianwan 5 and 6,
CGN said. In early January, meanwhile, LHNP announced that
it planned to build a cooling seawater intake structure on the
north side of the Hongyanhe plant area, as well as an ice-proof
diversion levee and " two pollution prevention nets " outside
the intake structure. The structure is necessary because reliability
of the existing Hongyanhe units has been afflicted by
" seasonal outbreaks " of jellyfish, it said.
Gazprom Opens TurkStream Gas Pipeline. Russia and Turkey
on Jan. 8 officially opened the TurkStream pipeline, boosting
the Russian state-owned gas giant Gazprom's plans to
export 15.75 billion cubic meters (bcm) per year of natural gas
to Turkey and 15.75 bcm/year to Bulgaria, Serbia, and Hungary
in a route that bypasses Ukraine and Romania. The pipeline will
stretch 930 kilometers under the Black Sea when fully completed.
The project is being built in two phases. Pipe-laying for
the first section was completed within 15 months in November
2018, and construction of the receiving terminal in Turkey
was finished in 2019. The second section, which will serve as a
transit to southern and southeastern Europe through Turkey, is
expected to begin operating by the end of this year. The project
uses, for the first time, 813-millimeter-diameter pipe that was
laid at a depth of 2,200 meters.
Siemens Gamesa Acquires Senvion's Assets, Intellectual
Property. Spanish wind turbine giant Siemens Gamesa
Renewable Energy (SGRE) on Jan. 9 completed its €200 million
acquisition of German competitor Senvion, a company that
has installed more than 8,200 onshore and offshore wind turbines
with rated outputs of between 2 MW and 6.33 MW since
2001. SGRE said the acquisition, which includes Senvion's EuroFebruary
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pean service assets and intellectual property (IP) adds 9 GW to
its own serviced fleet. It means that SGRE's multibrand footprint
is now larger than 10 GW, and its fleet under maintenance is
about 69 GW. The acquired assets also help diversify SGRE's
" business and geographical exposure, the company said.
First WindFloat Floating Wind Turbine Begins Operations
in Portugal. The first of three 8.4-MW floating platforms that will
make up the 25-MW WindFloat Atlantic wind farm on Dec. 31
began supplying power to the Portuguese grid via a 20-kilometer
cable connected to a substation in Viana do Castello, northern
Portugal. The other two units will be connected " successively, "
said the Windplus consortium, the project's developer, which
comprises EDP Renewables (54.4%), Engie (25%), Repsol
(19.4%), and Principle Power Inc. (1.2%). Developers said the
achievement marked a " significant technological leap " for wind
power. The WindFloat Atlantic units comprise 8.4-MW V164 MHI
Vestas wind turbines installed atop semi-submersible floating
platforms. The platforms, which were built as a cooperative effort
by Spain and Portugal, will be anchored to the seabed with
chains at a depth of 100 meters. They are designed to be transported
by standard towing craft, " as opposed to [fixed-bottom]
projects, which require expensive vessels to be mobilized for
transport, " the consortium noted. Their onshore assembly also
helps " scale-back " logistics, financial, and environmental costs
associated with marine construction. " All of these technological
advantages make it viable for the project to be replicated anywhere
in the world, at a much larger scale, " it said. The project is
also notable because it is the world's first application of dynamic
cables (supplied by JDR Cables) operating at 66 kV. ■
-Sonal Patel is a POWER senior associate editor.
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