The Macau Power Station (CMC; , pt, Central Térmica de Macau) was a gas and diesel-fired

power station A power station, also referred to as a power plant and sometimes generating station or generating plant, is an industrial facility for the generation of electric power. Power stations are generally connected to an electrical grid. Many p ...

in Nossa Senhora de Fátima,

Macau Macau or Macao (; ; ; ), officially the Macao Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China (MSAR), is a city and special administrative region of China in the western Pearl River Delta by the South China Sea. With a pop ...

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. Commissioned in 1973 for its first two units, it was the first power station in Macau. It was decommissioned in 2016.

History

The power plant was originally developed by Macao Electric Lighting Co., Ltd. (MELCO) in the early 1900s. The plant was then operated by the company. There are give unused diesel generators at the plant commissioned between 1964 and 1971. The existing first two units of gas turbine of CMC was commissioned in 1973 with a total capacity of 30.2 MW. In 1983, four units of diesel fuel turbine were added to the power station, adding another 34 MW to the plant, which made the total installed capacity of CMC became 64.2 MW. In 1985,

Companhia de Electricidade de Macau Companhia de Electricidade de Macau – CEM, S.A. known simply as CEM or is a private public utility company with a sole concession to transmit, distribute, sell high, medium and low voltage of electricity in Macau. Besides, CEM owns an inst ...

(CEM) took over the operation of the plant from MELCO.

Decommissioning

In November 2015, CEM sent a proposal to the

Government of Macau The Government of the Macau Special Administrative Region (; Portuguese: Governo da R.A.E. de Macau; conventional short name Macau Government, 澳門政府, Governo de Macau), are headed by secretariats or commissioners and report directly to ...

indicating a plan to return the land where the power station stands back to the government. In August 2016, CEM said that they were ready to vacate the power station from its land. The

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for the demolition of the plant was completed in the third quarter of 2016. On 21 March 2017, the government had awarded the contract for redevelopment plant of the power plant into public housing in which it will house 1,000 housing units. The license was then issued on 27 April 2017. Around the same time, preparation works for the demolition was completed. The demolition of the facilities and dismantling of the components were finished by the end of 2017. The demolition of all of the major structures were finished by the end of May 2018. Finally, the

soil decontamination Soil contamination, soil pollution, or land pollution as a part of land degradation is caused by the presence of xenobiotic (human-made) chemicals or other alteration in the natural soil environment. It is typically caused by industrial activity ...

works were carried out until the end of June 2018 including all of the demolition works.

Generation

The power station installed capacity makes up 13% of Macau's total installed capacity.

References

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History

Decommissioning

Generation

See also

References