Chapter 126: A Power Plant That Can Run
Mandarin Oriental, Hong Kong, top floor.
At four o'clock in the afternoon, the afterglow of the setting sun shone in the calm waters of Victoria Bay, and it had been more than four hours since Jian Zhikang got off the plane, and the fatigue of the transoceanic flight was not compensated for by the sleep in the 747 business class.
Jian Zhikang looked at the technical information of the wafer production line of the 1.5 micron process in his hand with some absent-mindedness, and occasionally his distracted gaze would pass over Li Liwei, who was sitting opposite him, wearing a beige suit and skirt.
Li Liwei looked intently at a document on the low table in the living room, and the pen in her hand subconsciously turned skillfully on her slender fingers.
"Miss Li, how long will it take for Da Shao to come back?"
Looking at the golden sunset outside the window, which had half sunk to the sea level, Jian Zhikang put aside the information of Motorola's wafer production line, trying to know from Li Liwei the reason why Liang Yuan got him from the United States to Hong Kong.
Twenty-four hours ago, Jian Zhikang, who was far away in Illinois, was discussing with the relevant personnel of Motorola's headquarters the negotiation and negotiation of resuming the introduction of Motorola's 1.5-micron wafer production line by Hong Kong-based power collectors at an appropriate time, when he suddenly received a transatlantic call from Gong Yun from Hong Kong, replacing Liang Yuan, asking Jian Zhikang whether the work at hand was urgent and whether it was possible to come to Hong Kong.
Recently, for Yuanjia's Gangji Collector, it has been tormented between happiness and pain, although the Yuanjia Conference approved the project application of Su Liangyu and others to introduce a wafer production line with international mainstream technical standards.
But the wafer production line is not a cabbage that can be bought after all, and the three giants of Hong Kong-based power collection with the budget approved by the Yuanjia Conference went out two at once, Jian Zhikang is responsible for the line of Motorola in the United States, Su Liangyu is responsible for the line of Siemens in the Federal Republic of Germany, and Fang Xingdong has more time in China due to the fact that the supercomputing project is about to enter a critical period.
This change in the political situation within the republic caused great trouble for the introduction of technology from the port base power collector, and the Federal Republic of Germany was better. On the issue of the reunification of the two Germanys, the republic was appealed to, and although the door to cooperation was closed due to the situation, the informal consultations between Yuanjia and Siemens were not interrupted.
The problem is that Siemens insists on only selling equipment and not services, and even refuses to entrust training neatly, and IC equipment Siemens also only sells 2.0 micron process wafer production lines, compared with the 1.5 micron process technology that Motorola may release, Su Liangyu and others tend to import technology from the United States.
Since the United States is the frontrunner in sanctions. As a local company in the United States, Motorola naturally cannot openly oppose the White House, and after the international situation changed, the negotiations between Hong Kong-based Jidian and Motorola came to an abrupt end.
Jian Zhikang has recently been staying in the United States to find an opportunity to contact White House Chief of Staff John Sununu through the contacts he has accumulated over the years, and has tried to use this extremely powerful figure in the Bush presidency to classify the negotiations between Yuanjia and Motorola into the certification of the contract that has already taken effect, so as to justifiably circumvent the embargo policy that the White House has just promulgated.
However, whether it is to negotiate with Motorola or to meet with the chief of staff of the White House, these two things are not things that can be done in a hurry, and after receiving a call from Gong Yun, Jian Zhikang looked at the itinerary and chose to leave for Hong Kong from the United States on the same day.
Although Jian Zhikang knew that Liang Yuan's visit to Hong Kong this time was to completely finalize the relevant agreement for the acquisition of Jardine Matheson. But I can't guess what this matter has to do with Gangji Power Collection, but considering that someone's thinking has always been difficult to figure out, Jian Zhikang thought about it for a while on the plane and put the problem aside.
After breakfast, Da Shao went to sea by boat with Mr. Qi, saying that he was going to inspect the location of the future mooring power plant. Li Liwei smiled and handed the document in her hand to Jian Zhikang.
"This document will be published in this month's group briefing, and Mr. Jian's authority can be known in advance. ”
As one of the world's top experts in the electronics industry, Jian Zhikang has an amazing sensitivity to new technologies, and Li Liwei's permission-related words in the latter sentence Jian Zhikang did not hear at all. All of Jian Zhikang's attention was occupied by the new term "mooring power plant".
In terms of word composition, mooring is usually a special word for the marine industry. Power plants are also generally just used as short for power plants.
In a few breaths, Jian Zhikang judged through the literal meaning of the words what kind of new trick this new trick that had just emerged from Liang Yuan's mouth was.
Boats, large ships or superships are common, and marine generators and even super-large ships are equipped with marine power stations are not uncommon, the problem is that power plants and marine power stations are not at the same level in terms of industrial categories.
In his mind, Jian Zhikang instantly placed the newly completed Shengjing No. 2 Thermal Power Plant near Shengjing North Station, with its straight white chimney and conical cooling tower, on the sparkling Victoria Bay.
Although this style is unusual, it is also in line with the whimsical thinking. This was just Jian Zhikang's first reaction.
But in a blink of an eye, Jian Zhikang overturned his first reaction, the huge supertanker, the powerful heavy-duty gas turbine, the offshore oil and gas field in the Pearl River Estuary, the GTCC combined cycle high-clean power station that Liang Yuan has been talking about, and the Hong Kong Electric Light. China Gas .......
These somewhat closely related matters came to Jian Zhikang's mind.
"Do you want to move the GTCC combined cycle power station to a supertanker, and by the way, plan to put pressure on Hongkong Electric and CLP?" Jian Zhikang blurted out a question.
Due to the membership of the British Commonwealth and the economic development has been good, Hong Kong's electricity and energy market is quite mature, in other words, the market is saturated, Hong Kong Electric, China Gas, China Power these three energy companies monopolize all the energy supply in Hong Kong, leaving no room for new businesses to develop.
China Gas has been confined to the narrow field of domestic combustion of natural gas by Hongkong Electric and CLP Power, and its share of Hong Kong's energy market is relatively small, which has little to do with the overall situation of Hong Kong's energy market.
Under normal circumstances, if an institution or individual covets the windfall profits of Hong Kong's energy market and intends to enter the Hong Kong energy market, then as a new entrant, it must independently undertake the construction of transmission lines and various distribution facilities throughout Hong Kong, and the amount of investment in this field is by no means small.
Compared with the large investment in transmission and distribution, the construction of new power plants is an astronomical huge pit, whether it is thermal power, nuclear power or natural gas power generation, the installed capacity is expected to be no less than 1,200 megawatts, and the investment will not be less than 3 billion US dollars.
If we consider that Hongkong Electric and CLP Power have joined forces to fight back, the investment of nearly $4 billion will be at great risk at any time, and there is a possibility that Hong Kong will completely rot at any time.
Of course, this commercial balance of terror is also the biggest reliance on the windfall profits of Hong Kong Electric and CLP.
"Mr. Jian is really amazing, I read the documents that Da Shao took out several times before I tasted the taste, and Mr. Jian actually thought of it in the blink of an eye. Li Liwei said with a smile.
"It's not me who came up with the idea, and while I don't know the size of the detailed investment in building a new power transmission system in Hong Kong, the power plant has the lion's share of the system. ”
"Now that the lion's share of the investment can run away at any time, Hongkong Electric and CLP Power must listen carefully to the group's voice, otherwise it will not be ...... to provoke the group to attack their power plants with all their might." Jian Zhikang said with great emotion.
"The Hong Kong government's business license for the power industry is not a problem for us at all, if we only send electricity to Hong Kong Island or Kowloon area, the investment in land transmission lines will not exceed 300 million US dollars, and if the most difficult environmental protection and land acquisition problems in the construction process of the power plant are almost non-existent, the resulting cost is also zero. ”
Li Liwei's voice was full of admiration.
"The civil engineering part usually accounts for more than 10 percent of the investment in the power plant, and for us this investment is also zero, of course, compared to the traditional power plant, we need to pay an additional supertanker-sized hull cost as the price of the plant's long legs. ”
"The only uncertainty of this plan is that the GTCC combined cycle power station is also quite cutting-edge technology in the world, and the application prospects are not very clear, the United States only built the world's first 100 megawatt experimental commercial power station on land five years ago, and now all industry standards are being explored. ”
Li Liwei naturally did not know that since the 90s, the green environmental protection movement has gradually taken root in the hearts of the people, the share of natural gas in the proportion of global energy consumption has begun to rise sharply, and with the development of human civilization, public opinion has higher and higher requirements for corporate social responsibility.
The new generation of power generation equipment represented by GTCC combined cycle power station has begun to spread at an extremely rapid speed in the developed industrial countries of the West, and in the plane experienced by Liang Yuan, large LNG carriers, GTCC combined cycle power generation equipment, and large LNG floating storage gasification units have jointly opened a new chapter in offshore power generation.
A large number of small countries such as Singapore, South Korea, Japan, and the Netherlands have shown strong interest in this new combination of new technologies, and many large global power investment groups are also very optimistic about the application prospects of this new power plant in countries with weak infrastructure.
After all, countries with weak infrastructure are often war-torn, and large fixed assets that can run away on their own at critical moments are simply the favorite of capitalists.
Before Liang Yuan came to this plane, this new offshore power generation equipment was still at the forefront of the world, and there were very few industrial groups in the world capable of completing the design and production
"Mr. Jian, the relevant technical information about the GTCC high-clean power station is at the bottom of the three documents. ”
Li Liwei pointed to the stack of documents she had just handed to Jian Zhikang. (To be continued......)