15th Oct 2007 07:00
Datang Intl Power Generation Co Ld15 October 2007 DATANG INTERNATIONAL POWER GENERATION CO., LTD. (a sino-foreign joint stock limited company incorporated in the People's Republic of China) (Stock Code: 991) Overseas Regulatory Announcement Power Generation Increases 31.60% in the First Three Quarters of 2007 Special Notices The Company and all members of the board of directors (the "Board") warrant thetruthfulness, accuracy and completeness of the announcement, and jointly acceptthe responsibility for any false representations or misleading statementscontained in, or material omissions from, this announcement. This announcement is made pursuant to Rule 13.09(2) of the Rules Governing theListing of Securities on The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited. Datang International Power Generation Co., Ltd. (the "Company") would like toannounce that based on the Company's preliminary statistics, as of 30September 2007, the total power generation of the Company and its subsidiaries(the "Group") in the first three quarters of 2007 amounted to 86.597 billionkWh, an increase of 31.60% when compared to the corresponding period of theprevious year. The Group's total on-grid power generation was 81.539 billionkWh, an increase of 31.88% when compared to the corresponding period of theprevious year. The substantial increase in the Group's power generation for the first threequarters of 2007 as compared with that of the previous year was mainlyattributable to the following factors: 1. Increased capacity of the Company's operating generation units: Duringthe second half of 2006, a number of new generation units of the Company'ssubsidiaries have commenced operation, and thus substantially increasing theGroup's overall power generation capacity. Such subsidiaries include ZhejiangDatang Wushashan Power Generation Company Limited ("Wushashan Power Company"),Guangdong Datang International Chaozhou Power Generation Company Limited("Chaozhou Power Company"), Fujian Datang International Ningde Power GenerationCompany Limited ("Ningde Power Company"), Yunnan Datang International HonghePower Generation Company Limited ("Honghe Power Company"), and the YayangshanHydropower Project of Yunnan Datang International Lixianjiang HydropowerDevelopment Company Limited ("Lixianjiang Hydropower Company"). Meanwhile,hydropower projects including Longma and Tukahe of Lixianjiang HydropowerCompany also had new generation units commencing operation in July this year. 2. Increased demand in service areas: For the first three quarters of 2007,the power demand within the service areas of the Company - the Beijing-Tianjin-Tangshan Power Grid, the Shanxi Power Grid, the Gansu Power Grid, the Yunnan Power Grid, the Zhejiang Power Grid and the Guangdong Power Grid -continued to maintain rapid growth. 3. Improvement in operating reliability of generation units: For the firstthree quarters of 2007, the Company achieved an equivalent availability factorof 94.56%, representing an increase of 0.42 percentage point when comparedto 94.14% as in the corresponding period of the previous year. 4. The power generation obstruction problem at Hebei Datang InternationalWangtan Power Generation Company Limited ("Wangtan Power Company"), asubsidiary of the Company, was resolved and its generation units are now operating in full capacity. Power generation details of the Group's power plants for the first threequarters of 2007 were as follows: Power plant/company Power generation Power generation Growth for the first for the first three quarters of three quarters of (%) 2007 2006 (billion kWh) (billion kWh) Gao Jing Thermal Power Plant 2.6482 2.5120 5.42Dou He Power Plant 8.3851 8.0630 3.99Xia Hua Yuan Power Plant 1.9452 1.9110 1.79Zhang Jia Kou Power Plant 11.3474 10.8970 4.13Unit: 1, 3, 4 4.2202 4.1030 2.86 2 1.3376 1.2910 3.61 5, 6, 7, 8 5.7896 5.5040 5.19Tianjin Datang International Panshan Power Generation Company Limited 5.4477 5.3870 1.13Inner Mongolia Datang International Tuoketuo Power Generation Company 15.334 16.0050 -4.19LimitedShanxi Datang International Yungang Thermal Power Company Limited 2.1098 2.1690 -2.73Hebei Datang International Tangshan Thermal Power Company Limited 2.9406 3.5310 -16.72Shanxi Datang International Shentou Power Generation Company Limited 4.1929 4.2020 -0.22Gansu Datang International Liancheng Power Generation Company Limited 2.9588 2.4140 22.57Wangtan Power Company 5.6995 2.7210 109.46Wushashan Power Company 10.4036 2.4730 320.69Chaozhou Power Company 4.4238 1.1150 296.75Ningde Power Company 4.9727 1.1850 319.64Honghe Power Company 2.8938 0.7130 305.86Hebei Datang International Huaze Hydropower Development Company 0.0187 0.0249 -24.90LimitedYunnan Datang International Nalan Hydropower Development Company 0.4831 0.3620 33.45LimitedLixianjiang Hydropower Company: Yayangshan Hydropower Project 0.2995 0.1200 149.58 Longma Hydropower Project 0.0788 - - Tukahe Hydropower Project 0.0070 - -Inner Mongolia Datang International Duolun Hydropower Multiple 0.0064 - -Development Company Limited Total 86.5966 65.804 31.60 By Order of the Board Zhou Gang and Mok Chung Kwan, Stephen Joint Company Secretaries Beijing, the PRC, 12 October 2007 As at the date of this announcement, the directors of the Company are: Zhai Ruoyu, Zhang Yi, Hu Shengmu, Fang Qinghai, Zhou Gang, Liu Haixia, GuanTiangang, Su Tiegang, Ye Yonghui, Li Gengsheng, Xie Songlin*, Liu Chaoan*, YuChangchun* and Xia Qing* * Independent non-executive directors This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock ExchangeRelated Shares:
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