10th Jul 2007 07:31
Datang Intl Power Generation Co Ld10 July 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 for the First Half of 2007 Special Notices The Company and all members of the board of directors warrant the truthfulness,accuracy and completeness of the announcement, and jointly accept theresponsibility for any false representations or misleading statements containedin, 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 30 June2007, total power generation of the Company and its subsidiaries (the "Group")during the first half of 2007 amounted to 56.042 billion kWh, an increase of35.54% when compared to the corresponding period of the previous year. The Group's total on-grid power generation was 52.812 billion kWh, an increase of35.79% when compared to the corresponding period of the previous year. The increase in the Group's power generation for the first half of 2007 ascompared with that of the previous year was mainly attributable to the followingreasons: 1. Increased capacity of operating generation units: Comparing the firsthalf of 2007 to the corresponding period of 2006, a number of the Company'ssubsidiaries have witnessed commencement of operation of new generation unitswith an aggregate capacity of 4,020 MW, thereby substantially increasing theoverall power generation capacity of the Company. Such subsidiaries includeZhejiang Datang Wushashan Power Generation Company Limited ("Wushashan Power"),Guangdong Datang International Chaozhou Power Generation Company Limited("Chaozhou Power"); Fujian Datang International Ningde Power Generation CompanyLimited ("Ningde Power"); Yunnan Datang International Honghe Power GenerationCompany Limited ("Honghe Power"), and the Yayangshan Hydropower Project ofYunnan Datang International Lixianjiang Hydropower Development Company Limited("Lixianjiang Hydropower"). 2. Increased demand in service areas: For the first half of 2007, the powerdemand within the service areas of the Company - the Beijing-Tianjin-TangshanPower Grid, the Shanxi Power Grid, the Gansu Power Grid, the Yunnan Power Grid,the Zhejiang Power Grid and the Guangdong Power Grid - continued to maintainstable and rapid growth. 3. Improvement in operating reliability of generation units: For the firsthalf of 2007, the Company achieved an equivalent availability factor of 93.88%,representing an increase of 1.13 percentage points when compared to 92.75% as inthe corresponding period of 2006. 4. The power generation obstruction problem at Hebei Datang InternationalWangtan Power Generation Company Limited ("Wangtan Power") was resolved and itsgeneration units are now operating in full capacity. The utilisation rate of theCompany's generation units increased substantially in the first half of 2007as compared to the corresponding period of 2006. Power generation details of the Group for the first half of 2007 were asfollows:Power plant/company Power generation Power generation Growth (%) for the first half for the first half of 2007 of 2006 (billion kWh) (billion kWh)Gao Jing Thermal Power Plant 1.835 1.712 7.18Dou He Power Plant 5.391 5.248 2.72Xia Hua Yuan Power Plant 1.312 1.324 -0.91Zhang Jia Kou Power Plant 7.655 7.623 0.42Unit: 2.813 2.729 3.08 1, 3, 42 0.885 0.911 -2.865, 6, 7, 8 3.957 3.983 -0.65Tianjin Datang International Panshan Power Generation 3.371 3.545 -4.91Company LimitedInner Mongolia Datang International Tuoketuo Power 9.852 10.596 -7.02Generation Company LimitedShanxi Datang International Yungang Thermal Power Company 1.439 1.406 2.35LimitedHebei Datang International Tangshan Thermal Power Company 2.013 2.322 -13.30LimitedShanxi Datang International Shentou Power Generation 2.597 2.621 -0.92Company LimitedGansu Datang International Liancheng Power Generation 2.043 1.768 15.55Company LimitedWangtan Power 3.541 1.887 87.65Wushashan Power 6.399 0.804 695.89Chaozhou Power 2.857 0.244 1,070.90Honghe Power 2.219 0.099 2,140.41Ningde Power 3.206 0 -Hebei Datang International Huaze Hydropower Development 0.0105 0.0102 2.94Company LimitedYunnan Datang International Nalan Hydropower Development 0.190 0.137 38.69Company LimitedYayangshan Project of Lixianjiang Hydropower 0.111 0 -Total 56.042 41.345 35.54 By Order of the Board Zhai Ruoyu Chairman Beijing, the PRC, 9 July 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 An announcement containing details of the above matter is available for viewingon the website of Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited at http://www.hkex.com.hk under "Latest Listed Company Information" and the website ofDatang International Power Generation Co., Ltd. at http://www.dtpower.com. 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