Guangdong Pinghai power station

The Guangdong Huizhou Pinghai power station is a 2,000 MW project for Pinghai Town, Huidong County, Huizhou City of Guangdong Province in the People’s Republic of China.

Project developers applied for the station to be covered under the UN's Clean Development Mechanism. The project was to install and operate two ultra-supercritical coal-fired power generation units with the total capacity of 2×1000MW, to generate and sell electricity to the South China Power Grid (SCPG), which covers Guangdong, Guangxi, Yunnan, and Guizhou Provinces.

The Sierra Club and other groups opposed the station's inclusion under the CDM, arguing that the project was already completed: Unit 1 of the project has been operational since October 2010,1 and Unit 2 was brought online in July 2011: "The fact that the project sponsors fully financed and completed the project in advance of CDM validation or registration proofs that the project developers did not need CDM support to move forward using ultra-supercritical technology."

In late February 2012, the CDM executive board refused to register the Guangdong Pinghai project in China, which means that it will not be eligible for CDM support.

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