Combined cycle power plant (Ahlon)

[okkar66129@xxxxxxxxxxx]

Subject: Combined cycle power plant (Ahlon) opened

Combined  cycle power plant  (Ahlon)  opened, will  
generate 350m units of electricity a year


YANGON, 15 Sep-The  combined  cycle  power  plant  Ahlon) of
 Myanma  Electric  Power   Enterprise  of  the  Ministry  of
 Electric Power was commissioned  into service this morning,
 attended by Secretary- 1 of the State Peace and Development
 Council   Lt-Gen  Khin  Nyunt.  Speaking  on  the  occasion
 Minister  Maj-Gen  Tin Htut said the  ministry  is building
 more  natural-gas  powered  plants,  hydel power plants and
 combined  cycle power plants to meet the  nation's  growing
 power   demand.  Power   consumption   at  present  is  750
 Triegawatts  up over 200 per cent  from  330  megawatts  in
 1988.  Plans are being laid down to  implement  more  power
 projects  as the  official  review  shows rise in the power
 consumption in the future.

With the permission of the government, the ministry  reached
an agreement with Marubeni  Corporation  on 24 March 1997 to
extend installation of two combined cycle power plants, each
with  54-megawatt-capacity,  one at  Ahlon  and  another  at
Hlawga,  to  fulfil  the  national  energy  needs;  and  the
combined  cycle power plants do not need to burn extra- fuel
but  generate  power by  recycling  the waste  heat from the
nearby gas-powered plants.

Due to the  efforts  of  Myanmar  engineers  and  staff  and
Japanese  and German  engineers,  building  of the plant and
installation of machines was completed on 31 July 1999 three
months ahead of the target period of October 1999.  Test run
of the plant was completed in August; and the plant  started
to supply power to national power grid on 1 September  1999.

__________________________



--== Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ ==--
Share what you know. Learn what you don't.