(MENAFN) China Southern Power Grid is planning to boost investment in smart grid construction in the Pearl River Delta region to improve clean energy installation in the upcoming years.
A spokesperson for the company said it will invest over 170 billion yuan from 2018 to 2022 to improve disaster prevention aptitude of power grids in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, which is frequently hit by natural disasters.
The company pledges to guarantee central urban areas in Guangzhou and Shenzhen cities will have power outages of less than 30 minutes each year, while other cities such as Zhuhai and Zhongshan will have power cuts of less than one hour a year.
It will also invest more than 20 billion yuan during the period, mainly in the fields of clean energy, direct-current transmission, distributed micro grid, engineering centers and laboratories on energy storage and superconductivity.
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