Power Generation for 2007

Datang Intl Power Generation Co Ld 10 July 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 for the First Half of 2007 Special Notices The Company and all members of the board of directors 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 June 2007, total power generation of the Company and its subsidiaries (the 'Group') during the first half of 2007 amounted to 56.042 billion kWh, an increase of 35.54% when compared to the corresponding period of the previous year. The Group's total on-grid power generation was 52.812 billion kWh, an increase of 35.79% when compared to the corresponding period of the previous year. The increase in the Group's power generation for the first half of 2007 as compared with that of the previous year was mainly attributable to the following reasons: 1. Increased capacity of operating generation units: Comparing the first half of 2007 to the corresponding period of 2006, a number of the Company's subsidiaries have witnessed commencement of operation of new generation units with an aggregate capacity of 4,020 MW, thereby substantially increasing the overall power generation capacity of the Company. Such subsidiaries include Zhejiang Datang Wushashan Power Generation Company Limited ('Wushashan Power'), Guangdong Datang International Chaozhou Power Generation Company Limited ('Chaozhou Power'); Fujian Datang International Ningde Power Generation Company Limited ('Ningde Power'); Yunnan Datang International Honghe Power Generation Company Limited ('Honghe Power'), and the Yayangshan Hydropower Project of Yunnan Datang International Lixianjiang Hydropower Development Company Limited ('Lixianjiang Hydropower'). 2. Increased demand in service areas: For the first half 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 stable and rapid growth. 3. Improvement in operating reliability of generation units: For the first half of 2007, the Company achieved an equivalent availability factor of 93.88%, representing an increase of 1.13 percentage points when compared to 92.75% as in the corresponding period of 2006. 4. The power generation obstruction problem at Hebei Datang International Wangtan Power Generation Company Limited ('Wangtan Power') was resolved and its generation units are now operating in full capacity. The utilisation rate of the Company's generation units increased substantially in the first half of 2007 as compared to the corresponding period of 2006. Power generation details of the Group for the first half of 2007 were as follows: Power plant/company Power generation Power generation Growth (%) for the first half for the first half of 2007 of 2006 (billion kWh) (billion kWh) Gao Jing Thermal Power Plant 1.835 1.712 7.18 Dou He Power Plant 5.391 5.248 2.72 Xia Hua Yuan Power Plant 1.312 1.324 -0.91 Zhang Jia Kou Power Plant 7.655 7.623 0.42 Unit: 2.813 2.729 3.08 1, 3, 4 2 0.885 0.911 -2.86 5, 6, 7, 8 3.957 3.983 -0.65 Tianjin Datang International Panshan Power Generation 3.371 3.545 -4.91 Company Limited Inner Mongolia Datang International Tuoketuo Power 9.852 10.596 -7.02 Generation Company Limited Shanxi Datang International Yungang Thermal Power Company 1.439 1.406 2.35 Limited Hebei Datang International Tangshan Thermal Power Company 2.013 2.322 -13.30 Limited Shanxi Datang International Shentou Power Generation 2.597 2.621 -0.92 Company Limited Gansu Datang International Liancheng Power Generation 2.043 1.768 15.55 Company Limited Wangtan Power 3.541 1.887 87.65 Wushashan Power 6.399 0.804 695.89 Chaozhou Power 2.857 0.244 1,070.90 Honghe Power 2.219 0.099 2,140.41 Ningde Power 3.206 0 - Hebei Datang International Huaze Hydropower Development 0.0105 0.0102 2.94 Company Limited Yunnan Datang International Nalan Hydropower Development 0.190 0.137 38.69 Company Limited Yayangshan Project of Lixianjiang Hydropower 0.111 0 - Total 56.042 41.345 35.54 By Order of the Board Zhai Ruoyu Chairman Beijing, the PRC, 9 July 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 An announcement containing details of the above matter is available for viewing on the website of Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited at http:// www.hkex.com.hk under 'Latest Listed Company Information' and the website of Datang International Power Generation Co., Ltd. at http://www.dtpower.com. 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