Power Generation for 2006

18 Jan 2007 07:00

Datang Intl Power Generation Co Ld18 January 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) Announcement on Power Generation for the Year of 2006 This announcement is made pursuant to Rule 13.09(2) of the Rules Governing the Listing of Securities on The StockExchange of Hong Kong Limited. Datang International Power Generation Co., Ltd. (the "Company") would like to announce that based on the Company'spreliminary statistics, as of 31 December 2006, total power generation of the Company and its subsidiaries (the"Group") for the year of 2006 amounted to 93.459 billion kWh, an increase of 31.65% when compared to the correspondingperiod of 2005. The Group's total on-grid power generation was 87.902 billion kWh, an increase of 31.83% when comparedto the corresponding period of 2005 (For details of the Group's power generation in 2006, please refer to the tablebelow). The increase in the Group's total power generation for the year of 2006 as compared with that of 2005 was mainlyattributable to the following reasons: 1. Increased capacity of operating generation units: Compared to the corresponding period of 2005, the Group had put a number of new generation units into operation during 2006, thereby substantially increasing the overall power generation capacity of the Group. Such new generation units were owned by the Company's Zhejiang Datang International Wushashan Power Generation Project ("Wushashan Power Project"), and the Company's subsidiaries including Hebei Datang International Wangtan Power Generation Company Limited ("Wangtan Power"); Inner Mongolia Datang International Tuoketuo Power Generation Company Limited ("Tuoketuo Power"); Shanxi Datang International Shentou Power Generation Company Limited ("Shentou Power"); Yunnan Datang International Nalan Hydropower Development Company Limited ("Nalan Hydropower"); Guangdong Datang International Chaozhou Power Generation Company Limited ("Chaozhou Power"); Yunnan Datang International Honghe Power Generation Company Limited ("Honghe Power"), and Yunnan Datang International Lixianjiang Hydropower Development Company Limited ("Lixianjiang Hydropower").2. Increased demand in service areas: In 2006, the power demand within the service areas of the Group - 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 - maintained rapid growth.3. Improvement in operating reliability of generation units: In 2006, the Group's operating generation units achieved an equivalent availability factor of 94.71%, representing an increase of 1.56 percentage points when compared to the corresponding period of 2005. Power generation details of the Group for the year of 2006 were as follows: (Unit: billion kWh) Power Power Generation GenerationPower Plant/company for Year 2006 for Year 2005 Growth (%)Gao Jing Thermal Power Plant 3.463 3.774 -8.24Dou He Power Plant 10.546 10.369 1.71Xia Hua Yuan Power Plant 2.443 2.835 -13.83Zhang Jia Kou Power Plant 14.202 15.124 -6.10Unit: 1, 3, 4 5.566 5.814 -4.27 2 1.595 1.851 -13.83 5, 6, 7, 8 7.041 7.459 -5.60Wushashan Power Project 5.449 - -Tianjian Datang International Panshan Power Generation Company 7.011 7.805 -10.17LimitedTuoketuo Power 21.407 16.255 31.69Shanxi Datang International Yungang Thermal Power Company 2.997 2.937 2.04LimitedHebei Datang International Tangshan Thermal Power Company 4.776 4.672 2.23LimitedShentou Power 5.703 3.911 45.82Gansu Datang International Liancheng Power Generation Company 3.483 3.284 6.06LimitedWangtan Power 4.738 - -Chaozhou Power 2.201 - -Fujian Datang International Ningde Power Generation Company 2.461 - -LimitedHonghe Power 1.775 - -Hebei Datang International Huaze Hydropower Development 0.0309 0.0215 43.72Company LimitedNalan Hydropower 0.529 - -Lixianjiang Hydropower 0.234 - -Total 93.459 70.988 31.65 This announcement is also published on the website of Shanghai Stock Exchange (http://www.sse.com.cn) and in relevantnewspapers in the PRC. By Order of the Board Yang Hongming Company Secretary Beijing, the PRC, 17 January 2007 As at the date of this announcement, the Directors of the Company are: Zhai Ruoyu, Zhang Yi, Hu Shengmu, Fang Qinghai, Yang Hongming, Liu Haixia, Guan Tiangang, Su Tiegang, Ye Yonghui, TongYunshang, Xie Songlin*, Xu Daping*, Liu Chaoan*, Yu Changchun* and Xia Qing* * Independent non-executive Directors This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock Exchange