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Shanghai Electric Machinery Firm to Supply World's Largest CBM- Fueled Power Plant

Posted on: Sunday, 12 March 2006, 09:00 CST

Shanghai electric machinery firm to supply world's largest CBM- fueled power plant

SHANGHAI, March 12 (Xinhua) -- The Shanghai Electric Holding Co. has won the bid for supplying machineries for the world's largest coalbed methane-fueled (CBM) power plant under construction in North China's Shanxi Province.

The Shanghai-based Jiefang Daily has reported that the plant will be installed with 60 units of internal-combustion CBM engines, each with a generating capacity of 1,800 kilowatts. Electricity generated by the CBM engines will account for 90 percent of the plant's total generation.

The contract was taken by a manufacturer of environmental protection machinery under the Shanghai Electric, said Jiefang Daily, adding that the firm has teamed up with the U.S.-based Caterpillar to manufacture the whole set of machineries for the project, which is worth 500 million yuan (62.5 million U.S. dollars).

The project, to be fully completed in 2007, has been established as a demonstration project for the commercial use of CBM.

China's estimated CBM reserves of 31.46 trillion cubic meters - equivalent to 45 billion tons of standard coal - are the third largest in the world and are located in coal beds over 2,000 meters underground. Shanxi Province has the largest reserve of CBM resources in China.

Source: Xinhua News Agency - CEIS

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