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Press Releace
January 27, 2016
Kyushu Electric Power Company Inc.
Matsuura Power Station No.2 restarted additional construction

 Though the additional construction of Matsuura Power Station No.2 had been suspended since 2004, we won a bid to ensure the enough power station with competitiveness and stability, in view of electricity liberalization, based on a bidding system of power station (which has already been announced February 16, 2015).

 With constructing Matsuura Power Station No.2, we will make an effort to reduce fuel consumption and environmental burden by improving efficiency with leading-edge system.

 We will continue the additional construction putting utmost priority to safety with doubly ensuring environmental conservation.

Matsuura Power Station Overview
  No.2 [Reference] No.1
(It started operation in June 1989.)
Location Matsuura city, Nagasaki prefecture in Japan
Output 1,000MW 700MW
System Pulverized coal-burning,
ultra-super critical(USC)
power generation
Pulverized coal-burning,
super critical(SC) power
generation
Fuel Coal
Thermal Efficiency
(LHV basis)
Over 45% Around 43%

Sequence of events
March, 2001 Started construction
June, 2004 Suspended construction
February, 2015 Won a bid in bidding system of power station
November, 2015 Notification change the construction plan
January, 2016 Restarted construction
June, 2020 (planned) Start commercial operation (planning a front-loaded operation)
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