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build and finance the plant on an equal
equity basis. CPGCBL also is building
two other plants in Matarbari: a 700-MW
coal-fired ultrasupercritical power plant
in a JV with Singapore's Sembcorp, and
a 1,200-MW coal-fired ultrasupercritical
plant financed by the Japan International
Cooperation Agency.
Japanese Companies Cancel Plan
for Gas-Fired Units. Changes in the
economics of Japan's power market
prompted Tokyo Gas and JXTG Nippon
Oil & Energy in mid-July to cancel a
plan to build two additional gas-fired
units at their jointly operated Kawasaki
power plant. The companies in 2015 had
announced a plan for the units, each
with a capacity of 550 MW, that would
begin operation in 2021. The Kawasaki
plant currently has two gas-fired units
of 840 MW in total. The companies cited
increased competition in the country's
power sector after Japan deregulated
its generation and retail electricity market
in 2016. Japan sought to change its
market structure in the wake of the Fukushima
nuclear disaster in 2011, which
moved the country from a reliance on
nuclear power to greater use of fossil
fuels-mostly oil and liquefied natural
gas-that had to be imported, resulting
in higher costs for electricity. JXTG
has a 51% stake in the Kawasaki plant;
Tokyo Gas has a 49% share.
Work on Interconnector Linking
Norwegian Hydro, and German Wind
and Solar Begins. Installation of NordLink,
a 623-kilometer (km)-long highvoltage
direct current interconnector
between Norway and Germany with the
capacity to transport 1,400 MW, began
on August 1. When completed as anticipated
by 2020, the line will allow
Germany to import hydropower generated
by Norwegian hydropower plants
when wind turbine and solar activity
is limited. The project's equal owners
include Norwegian transmission system
operator Statnett and DC Nordseekabel
GmbH & Co., which is a joint venture
between European grid operator TenneT
and development bank KfW. DC Nordseekabel
is responsible for the construction
and approvals on the German part
of the project. The link will include a
516-km-long subsea cable portion. TenneT
said it is already installing underground
ducts for the cable.
Garona, Spain's Oldest Reactor,
to Close Permanently.
Spain's Santa
Maria de Garona nuclear power station,
a 40-year-old reactor owned by Endesa
and Iberdrola,
will close permanently
after the country's energy ministry rejected
a request to extend its operating
license through 2031. Closure of
the 466-MW reactor won't affect Spain's
power system, Energy Minister Alvaro
Nadal said on August 1. Spain's Nuclear
Safety Council had given the boiling water
reactor-Spain's smallest and oldest
nuclear unit-the green light to operate
until 2019 pending certain safety upgrades
that aligned to new requirements
introduced in Fukushima's aftermath, but
its owner Nuclenor shuttered the reactor
in December 2012 to avoid retroactive
tax charges. Nuclenor submitted a
license renewal for Garona to the Ministry
of Energy, Tourism, and the Digital
Agenda in May 2014. Minister Nadal
announced that the government decided
not to approve the renewal for the reactor
after surveying several opinions from
stakeholders involved in the process. ■
-Darrell Proctor and Sonal Patel,
POWER associate editors.
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