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Alan Havelock and I called on David Jeaffreson on Friday for an informal discussion about power developments in Hong Kong with particular reference to the impact of the above project which in the past 4-6 weeks has achieved a considerable head of steam culminating in Lawrence Kadoorie's visit to London to see the Lord Privy Seal, the Secretary of State for Industry and the Prime Minister.

2 David had some interesting observations on the UK's experience of 900 MWe turbines (two have been specified for the Guangdong project) and on our competitive position which Alan took on board. Alan will be sending some background setting out the technical relationship between 900 mw turbines and the 660 mw sets which are the standard CEGB set and which GEC have successfully sold But David also overseas (South Africa is the latest example).

made three points which I think I should put on record.

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First the Hong Kong Government needs to re-examine the effect

Originally of the use of power from Guangdong as a base load. they had thought that CLP envisaged buying 40% of a single 900 MWe turbine (ie 360 mw) but the latest proposals speak of a possible 60% of 1800 mw (ie 1080 mw). They are asking CLP to assess the effect of the larger take off in terms of Hong Kong's total power availability in 1990 to see whether too great a reliance is not being placed on offshore supplies. My preliminary view is that as Hong Kong will have about 7520 mw (Tsing Yi 4x250 mw, Castle Peak 4x350 mw + 4x660 mw, Aplichau 8x120 mw and Lama4x250 mw) without taking into account the older Hok Un station and the approx 782 mw to be generated by gas turbines, the take off from Guangdong will be well within strategically acceptable limits but it is of course a vitally important factor as one can achieve economies in water if Chinese supplies were to be cut more easily than is possible with power.

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