Southwest China's Guizhou Province expects to transmit 12.73 billion kwh of electricity to Guangdong this year, an increase of 39.3 percent year-on-year, according to sources with the Guizhou Power Grid Company.

Guizhou has turned out to be one of the country's major electricity suppliers under the framework of the "west-to-east power transfer" project.

In accordance with the agreement signed between Guizhou and Guangdong, an economic powerhouse province in south China, Guizhou has to develop 4 million kilowatts of generating capacity for Guangdong between 2001 and 2005 and then additional 4 million kilowatts between 2006 and 2010.

The province had cumulatively transmitted 9.14 billion kwh of electricity to Guangdong in 2004, with electricity transmission load hitting 2.8 million kilowatts.

The province expects to meet the target of developing 4 million kilowatts of generating capacity for Guangdong by June this year.

And new electricity generating units with capacity topping 2.5 million kilowatts are expected to be completed and put into operation this year.

Guizhou has launched large-scale construction of power projects for the country's "west-to-east power transfer" project.

Currently, 80 percent of the first group of power projects, with generating capacity topping 5.38 million kw, have been put into operation. The second group of 12 power projects, with generating capacity topping 16.84 million kilowatts, are expected to be put into operation in succession by the end of this year.

(Xinhua News Agency March 6, 2005)