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Datang Intl Power Generation Co Ld 15 October 2007 DATANG INTERNATIONAL POWER GENERATION CO., LTD. (a sino-foreign joint stock limited company incorporated in the People's Republic of China) (Stock Code: 991) Overseas Regulatory Announcement Power Generation Increases 31.60% in the First Three Quarters of 2007 Special Notices The Company and all members of the board of directors (the 'Board') warrant the truthfulness, accuracy and completeness of the announcement, and jointly accept the responsibility for any false representations or misleading statements contained in, or material omissions from, this announcement. This announcement is made pursuant to Rule 13.09(2) of the Rules Governing the Listing of Securities on The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited. Datang International Power Generation Co., Ltd. (the 'Company') would like to announce that based on the Company's preliminary statistics, as of 30 September 2007, the total power generation of the Company and its subsidiaries (the 'Group') in the first three quarters of 2007 amounted to 86.597 billion kWh, an increase of 31.60% when compared to the corresponding period of the previous year. The Group's total on-grid power generation was 81.539 billion kWh, an increase of 31.88% when compared to the corresponding period of the previous year. The substantial increase in the Group's power generation for the first three quarters of 2007 as compared with that of the previous year was mainly attributable to the following factors: 1. Increased capacity of the Company's operating generation units: During the second half of 2006, a number of new generation units of the Company's subsidiaries have commenced operation, and thus substantially increasing the Group's overall power generation capacity. Such subsidiaries include Zhejiang Datang Wushashan Power Generation Company Limited ('Wushashan Power Company'), Guangdong Datang International Chaozhou Power Generation Company Limited ('Chaozhou Power Company'), Fujian Datang International Ningde Power Generation Company Limited ('Ningde Power Company'), Yunnan Datang International Honghe Power Generation Company Limited ('Honghe Power Company'), and the Yayangshan Hydropower Project of Yunnan Datang International Lixianjiang Hydropower Development Company Limited ('Lixianjiang Hydropower Company'). Meanwhile, hydropower projects including Longma and Tukahe of Lixianjiang Hydropower Company also had new generation units commencing operation in July this year. 2. Increased demand in service areas: For the first three quarters of 2007, the power demand within the service areas of the Company - the Beijing- Tianjin-Tangshan Power Grid, the Shanxi Power Grid, the Gansu Power Grid, the Yunnan Power Grid, the Zhejiang Power Grid and the Guangdong Power Grid - continued to maintain rapid growth. 3. Improvement in operating reliability of generation units: For the first three quarters of 2007, the Company achieved an equivalent availability factor of 94.56%, representing an increase of 0.42 percentage point when compared to 94.14% as in the corresponding period of the previous year. 4. The power generation obstruction problem at Hebei Datang International Wangtan Power Generation Company Limited ('Wangtan Power Company'), a subsidiary of the Company, was resolved and its generation units are now operating in full capacity. Power generation details of the Group's power plants for the first three quarters of 2007 were as follows: Power plant/company Power generation Power generation Growth for the first for the first three quarters of three quarters of (%) 2007 2006 (billion kWh) (billion kWh) Gao Jing Thermal Power Plant 2.6482 2.5120 5.42 Dou He Power Plant 8.3851 8.0630 3.99 Xia Hua Yuan Power Plant 1.9452 1.9110 1.79 Zhang Jia Kou Power Plant 11.3474 10.8970 4.13 Unit: 1, 3, 4 4.2202 4.1030 2.86 2 1.3376 1.2910 3.61 5, 6, 7, 8 5.7896 5.5040 5.19 Tianjin Datang International Panshan Power Generation Company Limited 5.4477 5.3870 1.13 Inner Mongolia Datang International Tuoketuo Power Generation Company 15.334 16.0050 -4.19 Limited Shanxi Datang International Yungang Thermal Power Company Limited 2.1098 2.1690 -2.73 Hebei Datang International Tangshan Thermal Power Company Limited 2.9406 3.5310 -16.72 Shanxi Datang International Shentou Power Generation Company Limited 4.1929 4.2020 -0.22 Gansu Datang International Liancheng Power Generation Company Limited 2.9588 2.4140 22.57 Wangtan Power Company 5.6995 2.7210 109.46 Wushashan Power Company 10.4036 2.4730 320.69 Chaozhou Power Company 4.4238 1.1150 296.75 Ningde Power Company 4.9727 1.1850 319.64 Honghe Power Company 2.8938 0.7130 305.86 Hebei Datang International Huaze Hydropower Development Company 0.0187 0.0249 -24.90 Limited Yunnan Datang International Nalan Hydropower Development Company 0.4831 0.3620 33.45 Limited Lixianjiang Hydropower Company: Yayangshan Hydropower Project 0.2995 0.1200 149.58 Longma Hydropower Project 0.0788 - - Tukahe Hydropower Project 0.0070 - - Inner Mongolia Datang International Duolun Hydropower Multiple 0.0064 - - Development Company Limited Total 86.5966 65.804 31.60 By Order of the Board Zhou Gang and Mok Chung Kwan, Stephen Joint Company Secretaries Beijing, the PRC, 12 October 2007 As at the date of this announcement, the directors of the Company are: Zhai Ruoyu, Zhang Yi, Hu Shengmu, Fang Qinghai, Zhou Gang, Liu Haixia, Guan Tiangang, Su Tiegang, Ye Yonghui, Li Gengsheng, Xie Songlin*, Liu Chaoan*, Yu Changchun* and Xia Qing* * Independent non-executive directors This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock Exchange
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