The Harbin Power Plant Equipment Group, based in the capital
city of northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, has signed an agreement
with the Australian company HRL Ltd to build a coal-gasification
power project which is sympathetic to the environment.
The project, to be located in Victoria, Australia, will employ
the HRL's electricity generating technology based on brown coal
gasification and will have a generation capacity of 400,000
kilowatts.
The technology is reportedly able to reduce greenhouse gas emission
by 30 percent and water consumption by 50 percent.
Sources with the Chinese company said the project is the largest
ever power project based on clean brown coal gasification and
China's largest power plant equipment export project in a developed
nation.
Most equipment for the project will be supplied by the Chinese
company at a value of more than 500 million Australian dollars.
Chinese company sources said the Harbin Power Plant Equipment
has also clinched a deal with the Australian company to cooperate
in five similar projects in other developed
nations.??
(Xinhua New Agency May 4, 2006)