Full power

2008-8-13 | NEWSPAPER EDITION

CHINA Guodian Corp, the nation's third-biggest electricity producer, said its five power plants in Shandong Province are operating at full capacity to help ease the province's worst electricity shortage in 10 years.

Output has hit 3.6 billion kilowatt-hours since July, 464.8 million kwh more than planned, the Beijing-based utility said in a statement yesterday.

Electricity sparks profits

GD Power Development Co, a unit of one of China's five largest electricity producers, said yesterday that profit last year surged 68 percent as the company increased output to meet demand in the world's fastest-growing...