http://tdworld.com/news/china-hv-lines-0109/
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....about 80 percent of the country's coal reserves were found in northern and western regions and 80 percent of hydropower in western regions, while more than 75 percent of energy demand is concentrated in the central and eastern regions.
The newly announced three alternating current lines would connect Huainan of Anhui Province and Xilingol of Inner Mongolia with energy- thirsty Shanghai, and the northern part of Shaanxi Province with Changsha in Hunan.
The company did not give specifics on investment of these three lines, but said it would invest 83 billion yuan (US$12 billion) in UHV power lines in 2009 and 2010.
The company also said two other UHV lines with a combined investment of 40 billion yuan are already underway. The two direct current lines would transmit hydropower in Sichuan Province to Shanghai and southern regions of Jiangsu Province.
The company said it planned to invest more than 100 billion yuan over the next three to four years on such UHV lines to make long- distance transmission more efficient.
The country's electricity demand may almost double to 7.4 trillion kilowatt-hours by 2020, and the installed generating capacity may also increase by a similar rate to 1.47 billion kilowatt, the company said.