Work on a direct current converter station started on Saturday in Gaoling
town of Huludao City in northeast China's Liaoning Province to serve to aim of
ensuring power supply in Beijing during the Olympic Games in 2008.
; With a budget of 2.23 billion yuan (about 279 million
U.S. dollars), the station will have four changers with a combined converting
capacity of 3 million kw, the biggest of the kind in the world, according to
Zheng Baosen, deputy general manager of the State Power Grid Corp.
The four changers will play a role in avoiding risks and hidden angers once
the power grids operate abnormally.
Liu Guoqiang, deputy governor of Liaoning, said the new station was one of
the infrastructure designed to rejuvenate the rust belt in northeast China and
would produce an active and profound influence on economic and social
development in Liaoning.
According to Zheng, the first phase construction of the station will be
finished in 2008. By then, the station will have gained a converting capacity of
1.5 million kw.