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Mengjiahe PDD to DOE ENG 20070403 PROJECT DESIGN DOCUMENT FORM (CDM PDD) - Version 03.1. CDM – Executive Board page 1 CLEAN DEVELOPMENT MECHANISM PROJECT DESIGN DOCUMENT FORM (CDM-PDD) Version 03 - in effect as of: 28 July 2006 CONTENTS A. General description of project activity B. Application of a baseline and monitoring methodology C. Duration of the project activity / Crediting period D. Environmental impacts E. Stakeholders’ comments Annexes Annex 1: Contact information on participants in the project activity Annex 2: Information regarding public funding Annex 3: Baseline information Annex 4: Monitoring plan This template shall not be altered. It shall be completed without modifying/adding headings or logo, format or font. PROJECT DESIGN DOCUMENT FORM (CDM PDD) - Version 03.1. CDM – Executive Board page 2 SECTION A. General description of project activity A.1. Title of the project activity: Yunnan Mengjiahe Kachang Muwen Hydro Power Station Ver. 0.2 Apr. 03, 2007 A.2. Description of the project activity: Summary: The proposed project activity is located in the middle and lower reaches of the Mengjia River, in Kachang Town, Yingjiang County, Dehong Dai-Jingpo Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province, China. The project is a run-of-river diversion type hydropower station with a low dam. The installed capacity is 40MW. On the average, the project activity is expected to operate during 5,000hours per year, which corresponds to an average annual generation of 200,000MWh and a net electricity supply to the grid of 142,180MWh. The power generated in the station will be transmitted to the Mengjia transformer substation, and then to the Yunnan Grid and, finally, to the Southern Grid. Contribution to sustainable development: The project activity contributes significantly to the region’s sustainable development in the following ways: - In recent years, China has witnessed a huge increase in power consumption. Both public and private parties are struggling to meet the demand for electricity. The proposed hydropower project will contribute in a sustainable manner to bridging the gap between supply and demand of power on a regional and national level. - In China, more than 80% of total electricity production is derived from coal based power plants. Being so heavily dependant on coal for its energy requirements, this project carries environmental benefits for the country’s air, soil and water sources. The project activity will displace the generation of fossil fuel power plants, reducing CO2, SOx and NOx emissions significantly, thus mitigating the air pollution and its adverse impacts on human health. The project activity promotes the growth of sustainable and renewable capacity in China and makes it less dependent on exhaustible and polluting fossil fuels. - The project will definitely contribute to the province’s economic development by improving the local energy generation infra-structure and generating employment during both the construction and the operation of the power plant. The proposed hydropower project is grid-connected electricity generation from renewable sources, which will be supplied to the Southern Grid and will replace electricity generated by thermal power plants, which are predominant in the Southern Grid. This will reduce anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases. A.3. Project participants: This template shall not be altered. It shall be completed without modifying/adding headings or logo, format or font. PROJECT DESIGN DOCUMENT FORM (CDM PDD) - Version 03.1. CDM – Executive Board page 3 Kindly indicate if the Party Name of Party involved (*) Private and/or public entity(ies) involved wishes to be ((host) indicates a host project participants (*) (as considered as Party) applicable) project participant ( Yes/No) People’s Republic of China Yingjiang Mingyu Electric -Power Development Co., Ltd. No (host) (as the project owner) ENEL Trade SpA Italy No (as the CER buyer) A.4. Technical description of the project activity: A.4.1. Location of the project activity: A.4.1.1. Host Party(ies): People’s Republic of China A.4.1.2. Region/State/Province etc.: Yunnan Province A.4.1.3. City/Town/Community etc: Kacha ng Town, Yingjiang County, Dehong Dai-Jingpo Autonomous Prefecture A.4.1.4. Detail of physical location, including information allowing the unique identification of this project activity (maximum one page): The proposed project activity is located in the middle and lower reaches of the Mengjia River, in Kachang Town, which is located in the northwest of Yingjiang County, Dehong Dai-Jingpo Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province, China. It is 109km from Yingjiang County, 264km from Luxi City, 791km from Kunming City, and 7.1km from the frontier line of China and Burma . The exact location of the station is at the longitude of 97°45' ~ 98°07'E, and latitude of 25°00'~ 25°15'N. To visualize the exact location of the project please refer to the map presented in Fig A.1: This template shall not be altered. It shall be completed without modifying/adding headings or logo, format or font. PROJECT DESIGN DOCUMENT FORM (CDM PDD) - Version 03.1. CDM – Executive Board page 4 Yunnan Yingjiang Yunnan Mengjiahe Kachang Muwen Hydro Power Station This template shall not be altered. It shall be completed without modifying/adding headings or logo, format or font. PROJECT DESIGN DOCUMENT FORM (CDM PDD) - Version 03.1. CDM – Executive Board page 5 Fig A.1 Location of Yunnan Mengjiahe Kachang Muwen Hydro Power Station A.4.2. Category(ies) of project activity: The project activity falls under the category described under CDM as “Sectoral Scope Number 1: Energy Industries – Renewable Sources”. A.4.3. Technology to be employed by the project activity: The project is a run-of-river diversion type hydro power station with a low dam. The construction of the project power station mainly consists of barrage, diversion tunnel, powerhouse, pressure pipe and upper pool. The diversion tunnel is 2,421m and located in left bank. The turbines and generators are produced by Chongqing Turbine Co., Ltd. and the specific technical data is listed is Table A.1. Table A.1 Technical data of the turbine / generator units Maximum Water Turbine Amount Type Rated water head Rated output Head Unit 2 HLA543-LJ-160 239.2m 233m 20.620MW Generator Amount Type Rated voltage Rated rotate speed Rated Capacity Unit 2 SF20-10/3250 10.5kV 600?/min 20MW The power generated by the station will be increased by 110kV and connected to 220kV the Mengjia transformer substation, and then to the Yunnan Province Grid and, finally, to the Southern Grid. There is no technology transfer due to all the te chnology employed is domestic. A.4.4. Estimated amount of emission reductions over the chosen crediting period: The project activity uses the renewable crediting period, and the estimation of the emission reductions during the first crediting period (Jul. 2007 to Jun. 2014) are presented in Table A.2. Estimated Emission Reductions throughout the first crediting period are 774,662tCO2e. Table A.2 the Estimation of the Emission Reductions in the Crediting Period Annual estimation of emission reductions in Years tons of CO2e 2007( the last 6 months) 55,333 2008 110,666 2009 110,666 2010 110,666 2011 110,666 2012 110,666 2013 110,666 2014 (the first 6 months) 55,333 Total estimated reductions ( tons of CO2e) 774,662 Total number of crediting years 7 This template shall not be altered. It shall be completed without modifying/adding headings or logo, format or font. PROJECT DESIGN DOCUMENT FORM (CDM PDD) - Version 03.1. CDM – Executive Board page 6 Annual average over the crediting period of 110,666 estimated reductions(tons of CO2e) A.4.5. Public funding of the project activity: There is no public funding from Annex I countries available to the project. This template shall not be altered. It shall be completed without modifying/adding headings or logo, format or font. PROJECT DESIGN DOCUMENT FORM (CDM PDD) - Version 03.1. CDM – Executive Board page 7 SECTION B. Application of a baseline and monitoring methodology: B.1. Title and reference of the approved baseline and monitoring methodology applied to the project activity: Baseline methodology: Approved consolidated baseline methodology ACM0002 (Version 6): “Consolidated baseline methodology for grid-connected electricity generation from renewable sources”. The methodology draws upon Version 03 of the “Tool for the demonstration and assessment of additionality”. Monitoring methodology: Approved consolidated monitoring methodology ACM0002 (Version 6): “Consolidated monitoring methodology for zero-emissions grid-connected electricity generation from renewable sources”. Reference: UNFCCC website: http://cdm.unfccc.int/methodologies/PAmethodologies/approved.html B.2. Justification of the choice of the methodology and why it is applicable to the project activity: This project satisfies ACM0002 methodology applicable conditions, that is: 1 The project is a capacity addition from a renewable energy source, i.e. water resource. The electricity capacity addition is from a run-of-river hydropower station; 2 The proposed project activity does not involve renewable fuel switching from fossil fuels; 3 The geographic and system boundaries for the relevant electricity grid can be clearly identified (the Southern Grid) and information on the characteristics of the grid is available. B.3. Description of the sources and gases included in the project boundary: According to the definition of project boundary by ACM0002, the project boundary includes the project site (the physical site of the project plant) and the electricity system that the project is connected to. In this specific case, the station is connected to the Yunnan grid and, finally, to the Southern Grid. The Southern grid is a larger regional grid, which consists of four sub-grids: Guangdong, Guangxi, Yunnan and Guizhou. According to the guidance given above, and considering the substantial inter grid power exchange throughout the Southern Grid, it is justifiable to identify the Southern Grid as the correct project boundary for this specific project.
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