The Hongyanhe nuclear power plant in Liaoning province was commissioned on Tuesday to supply heating to residents, its China operator General Nuclear Power Corp said.
This is the first advertising nuclear heating allocation in northeast China. With a planned heating domain of 242,400 meters, the 12 small coal-fired boilers in Hongyanhe city are expected to be upgraded, the company said.
The allocation will include a coal inflow of 5,726 metric tons consistent with the year and carbon dioxide emissions of 14,000 tons, dust of 209 tons, sulfur dioxide of 60 tons and nitrogen oxide emissions of 85 tons, he said.
Located in Wafangdian, Dalian, the Hongyanhe Nuclear Power Plant is also the first nuclear power plant and the largest power investment allocation in Northeast China.
Driven by the purpose of maximizing carbon emissions and achieving carbon neutrality, China is expanding its nuclear capability, Wang Shoujun, president of the China Nuclear Society, said at the 23rd Pacific Rim Nuclear Conference held in Beijing on Tuesday.
At the end of June, China had 53 nuclear facilities, or joints, in operation and 23 under construction, ranking it as the first in the world, Wang said.
China is expected to further expand its installed nuclear capacity in the next five years and will most likely approve six to eight new nuclear facilities a year as the amount of electrical power generated through nuclear force is expected to increase, he added.
China has approved 10 nuclear facilities, so this year nuclear power is expected to account for 10 percent of China’s total electric power generation through 2035, he added.
According to CGN, the first phase of the Hongyanhe plant saw the commissioning of 4 generator sets until 2016, and the current phase consisting of two more turbines became fully operational and ready to be announced in June. This has particularly helped stabilize the regional electricity source of northeast China.
The six devices can generate 48 billion kilowatt hours of electrical power per year, accounting for about 20 percent of Liaoning’s total electric power consumption, he added.
A Chinese analyst’s plans to expand nuclear heating illustrated his intentions to decarbonize his energy-intensive heating sector.
Nuclear power provides uninterrupted production and requires a solid input load. “As the northeast grid consumes less energy, nuclear service for district heating is a surely effective concept to solve the burden challenge and the Chinese central government’s decarbonization mandate. “” said Wei Hanyang, electric power market analyst at BloombergNEF.
“China is looking for a phase-out of coal in the heating sector, but herbal fuel as a replacement still produces carbon emissions. Carbon-free heating is a leading pursuit in the world, while the Hongyanhe plant has begun to explore it and pioneered the global trend. “
In addition to Hongyanhe, the third phase of the heating allocation of the Haiyang nuclear force in Shandong province, recently structured, is expected to begin offering blank heating until 2023, said Liu Yongde, lead engineer at State Power Investment Corp.
More than 200,000 citizens of Haiyang used nuclear heating for 143 days last winter, and the company plans to expand the heating zone to the entire Jiaodong Peninsula, Mr. Liu said.
The nuclear force and new force will contribute to the development of high-quality, white and low-carbon power, and the application of the blank force will go beyond electric power to other areas, adding heating, cooling, hydrogen and seawater desalination, he said. .