After full-load test run of 168 hours, the first phase of project of Haifeng Power Plant under CR Power – No.2 generating unit and supporting environmental protection facilities located in Shanwei, Guangdong, was successfully put into commercial operation at 20:08 on March 7. According to the real-time online monitoring data on environmental protection, the concentration of smoke and dust, sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides emitted by this unit was lower than 2, 15 and 38mg/standard cubic meter respectively, all lower than the emission standards of natural gas generating unit. This is the first one-million-kw generating unit with the “ultra-clean emissions” system and main project designed, built and put into operation synchronously in Guangdong Province and also CR Power.

To further raise the energy saving and emission reduction level of the coal-fired power plant, Haifeng Power Plant conducted design and construction according to the environmental protection standards of the coal-fired power plants in the “Pearl River Delta” region as early as 2011, trying to make a leading one-million-kw generating unit in environmental protection in China. In 2013, to further implement the national and provincial energy conservation and emission reduction policies, CR Power postponed the start of production of this unit and actively made an investment of nearly 200 million Yuan in environmental protection to increase the desulfurization and denitrification capacity and add wet electrostatic precipitator. Thus, the total investment in environmental protection facilities amounted to nearly one billion Yuan, accounting for 14% of total project investment.

Besides meeting the requirement of “ultra-clean emissions” in terms of environmental protection, Haifeng Power Plant has also used technologies like low-temperature economizer and condensate throttling to optimize energy consumption. The designed gross coal consumption rate of this unit is much lower than the national average–302 g/kWh. After the two generating units of this power plant are put into production in the first half of 2015, it will save about 120,000tons of coals when compared with the national average coal consumption of units.