Recently, the No.1 Unit of the 2×350 MW coal-fired power project of CHN Energy’s PT.Shenhua Guohua Lion Power Indonesia successfully completed a 96-hour net grid capacity test, marking its commencement of commercial operations.
This project is the first overseas bidding-winning Independent Power Project (IPP) by China Shenhua in response to China’s “Belt and Road Initiative” and the “Going Global Strategy”. Involving two 350 MW supercritical, pithead coal-fired units, the project introduced innovative fan mill and high-temperature furnace gas technologies, marking their first application in Indonesia’s energy engineering. Equipped with high-efficiency desulfurization ecological systems and low-nitrogen combustion technologies, the Company achieves multiple environmental breakthroughs by optimizing combustion control strategies, supporting Indonesia’s energy transition towards a cleaner, low-carbon while meeting the electricity demand. Once operational, the project is expected to reach an annual effective utilization of 7,008 hours, delivering stable annual power generation capacity aligned with its designed installed capacity. This reliable power output will ease local electricity supply pressure, support industrial expansion and meet increasing residential electricity consumption.
Since the project construction kick-off in September 2020, the project team has overcome severe construction challenges, meticulously completed the main plant facilities, and built an 80-kilometer transmission line, which achieved backfeeding in May—solving the bottleneck problems of project construction and breaking regional records for the shortest construction time among similar projects. During commissioning, the Company achieved 100% in key indicators including unit protection input rate, automatic control system input rate, on-line instrument accuracy, and equipment integrity input rate through scientific dispatching, meticulous operation and dynamic adjustment. The No.1 unit fully met the 96-hour net grid capacity test stipulated in the Power Purchase Agreement (PPA), marking its successful transition to commercial operation.
The cross-border management experience, technical adaptation solutions, and localized cooperation models of the project offer a replicable practice paradigm for China Shenhua’s market expansion along the Belt and Road routes.
