CHINA Huaneng Group, the nation's biggest power company, has started constructing a 2.4-billion-yuan (US$312-million) power plant in Jiangxi Province to increase electricity supply to the country's east.

The firm, based in Beijing, will build two so-called supercritical coal-fired generators of 350 megawatts each in Jiangxi Province's Ganzhou city, the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission said in a statement on its Website yesterday. This type of generator will cut coal usage by at least 10 grams per kilowatt-hour, it said. "This plant is the biggest energy project in Ganzhou and will boost electricity supplies to local consumers in Jiangxi," Bloomberg News reported, citing the statement.