"Column Lifting" a Milestone in Lamma Power Station Extension Project [15 Apr 2005]
Director and General Manager (Engineering)
of Hongkong Electric Holdings Limited,
Mr. Francis Lee (Centre), performs a
ritual ceremony .
Mr Francis Lee, tightens a bolt into a
column with a golden hammer at the
ceremony that signifies the commencement
of plant installation work of Unit 9 at
Lamma Power Station Extension.
A picture of the column-lifting ceremony.
The new 300 MW class gas-fired unit is
built on reclaimed land next to the existing
power station. |
Director and General Manager (Engineering)
of Hongkong Electric Holdings Limited,
Mr. Francis Lee (Centre), performs a
ritual ceremony .
Mr Francis Lee, tightens a bolt into a
column with a golden hammer at the
ceremony that signifies the commencement
of plant installation work of Unit 9 at
Lamma Power Station Extension.
A picture of the column-lifting ceremony.
The new 300 MW class gas-fired unit is
built on reclaimed land next to the existing
power station. |
Plant installation work of Hongkong Electric's first 300-megawatt class combined cycle gas-fired unit at the Lamma Power Station Extension project was officially kicked off today with a "Column Lifting Ceremony" to set in place one of the hot beams for a major facility.
This important ceremony - a milestone in the project - was officiated on site by the Director and General Manager (Engineering) of Hongkong Electric Holdings Limited, Mr. Francis Lee.
Hongkong Electric is to bring the new plant on-line by the summer of 2006 and when commissioned, the unit will be used as base-load, adding to the existing power plants and bringing the total installed capacity to above 3,720 megawatts.
Combined cycle technology will be used whereby waste heat of the flue gas from the gas turbine will be utilized to drive a steam turbine for maximizing output efficiency.
The steady supply of natural gas to fuel the new unit is ensured through a 25-year contract signed between HEC and Guangdong Dapeng LNG Company Limited in April last year. Liquefied natural gas (LNG) will be extracted from gas fields in Australia, liquefied and shipped to the Guangdong LNG Terminal at Cheng Tou Jiao in Shenzhen.
The LNG will then be gasified and supplied to the Lamma Power Station through a 93-km long submarine pipeline of which installation work started in March this year.
After the ceremony, Mr. Lee said: "This combined cycle gas-fired unit, the first for HEC, will be used as a top priority base-load facility. It will produce about 15 per cent of the total electricity generated in 2007."
Hongkong Electric currently has eight coal-fired units. Mr. Lee said the Company would continue to adopt the best practicable means to reduce power plant emissions. "We plan to use natural gas for future power generation because it has lower emissions of NOx and almost no SO2 emission," Mr. Lee added.
"Today marks another important step for Hongkong Electric in providing clean electricity to our customers," Mr. Lee said, referring to the Company's parallel plan to build Hong Kong's first commercial-scale wind power station at Tai Ling on Lamma Island.
Following the machinery installation, construction work of the 275kV transmission network will begin in the next few months. Trial run of the new facility is scheduled for early next year while commercial operation is expected in mid-2006.