C.W. Roberts, Esq., CRE 4,
Department of Trade, Victoria Street.
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22 November, 1976.
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You will recall that when he was in Hong Kong, Sir Peter Thornton called on Howard Duncan at Sir Lawrence Kadoorie's request to impress on him the importance of the Peninsula Electric Power Co. Ltd. (PEPCO) continuing to buy British. have followed this up with a call on Bill Stones, the Chief Engineer of China Light & Power (CL, whose secondment from the CEGB to put things right at the Tsing Yi power station was orchestrated by GEC. It didn't take Sir Lawrence and the others long to realise that they had the sort of man they needed. has now joined the company permanently as Deputy Managing Director and a member of the Board.
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2. Stones has done an outstanding job at Tsing Yi: plant which looked at one time as though it would be a major embarrassment to GEC is now operating to an extremely high reliability rate and the fact that Duncan was able to tell Sir Peter that PEPCO now has an excellent power station owes much to Stones' expertise and the immense amount of work he has devoted to putting things right. CLP is now relying very heavily on his advice in preparing their plans for future development and he has already prepared a paper and made a presentation to the Board recommending that they go for a new power station rather than extend Tsing Yi. He has proposed that the gap between the completion of the Tsing Yi station early next year (when the fourth 200MW generator will have been installed) and the commissioning of the new power station should be filled by a new gas turbine plant (for which he has a proposal from Rolls Royce). I gather the CLP Board (Duncan is a member) has accepted these proposals and that the plan is for the new power station to have four 350mW sets initially with two 500mW ones to follow. The first set will have to be commissioned by 1981/82.
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