[Dongyunfu City Shuiyuanshan Pumped Storage Power Station Project Bid Opening]On March 20, 2023, the Guangdong Provincial Public Resources Trading Platform released the announcement of candidates for the EPC general contracting project of the main project of the Shuiyuanshan Pumped Storage Power Station in Yunfu City. The body won the bid, and the bidding price was 4.046 billion yuan. The Yunfu Shuiyuanshan Pumped Storage Power Station in Guangdong Province is a key start-up project of the "14th Five-Year Plan" for the development of pumped storage in Guangdong Province. The power station is located in Taiping Town, Xinxing County, Yunfu City, Guangdong Province, with straight-line distances of 48km and 118km from Yunfu City and Guangzhou City, respectively. The installed capacity of this project is 1200MW, and its installed capacity is determined as a Type I (1) project. Install 4 reversible pump-turbine units with a single unit capacity of 300MW, with a designed annual power generation of 17.3MWh and a designed annual pumping power consumption of 23.1MWh. After the completion of the power station, a total of 500kV outgoing lines will be connected to the 500kV Wuyi Station to connect to the Guangdong Provincial Power System, and it will undertake system peak regulation, valley filling, frequency regulation, phase regulation, load backup and emergency backup in the system. Editor / Zhao E
On the afternoon of October 8th, under the on-site escort of the Guangdong Zhanjiang Maritime Bureau's "Haixun 0927" ship, the first flatbed cargo ship dedicated to the transportation of new energy vehicles in the Qiongzhou Strait, the "Green Source No. 1" ship, slowly entered the Xuwen Hai'an New Port, marking the successful trial operation of the ship's roll on/roll off transport route in the Qiongzhou Strait. It is reported that the deck cargo ship "Green Source No.1" has a total tonnage of 6731, a net tonnage of 3769, a length of 125.8 meters, and a width of 28 meters. The ship adopts a single-layer deck design, which can carry more than 160 new energy vehicles on a single voyage under full load conditions. The parking capacity is about 60% higher than that of existing passenger and roll on/roll off transport ships. The ship is planned to be deployed on the route from Hai'an New Port in Zhanjiang to Xiuying Port in Haikou. After being put into operation, it will add a new mode of sea transportation for new energy vehicles in the Qiongzhou Strait and effectively alleviate the tense situation of insufficient capacity for new energy vehicle transportation during the peak period of cross sea vehicle transportation in the Qiongzhou Strait. Editor/Zhou Yingwen
On October 9, 2024, Malaysian Deputy Prime Minister Fadhila stated that Malaysia has made progress in improving energy efficiency and that "energy conservation" has become the key to energy transition. Meanwhile, Malaysia will promote the ASEAN power grid as a key topic of discussion at the ASEAN Energy Ministers' Meeting. At the 2024 Asia Power and Energy Exhibition, which opened on the 8th, Fadhila revealed that as of June, Malaysia has saved 8769 gigawatt hours of electricity, worth over 2.2 billion ringgit, and plans to reduce 38 million tons of carbon dioxide emissions by 2025. In addition, the Malaysian government has approved the establishment of an energy exchange aimed at selling green electricity to neighboring countries. As the rotating chair of ASEAN in 2025, Malaysia will promote the construction of the ASEAN power grid to promote the promotion of renewable energy and enhance the resilience and reliability of electricity supply in ASEAN member countries. Editor/Zhou Yingwen