CTG completes installation of last rotors for Wudongde hydropower plant

Date: 2021-03-18

China Three Gorges Corporation (CTG) announced that it has completed the installation of the rotors of the NO.12 power unit for the Wudongde hydropower plant on March 13, signaling that the China’s fourth largest is about to enter the final assembly phase.

The plant, located in Jinsha River, is a major national project under the West-to-East Power Transmission Initiative, delivering huge benefits such as electricity generation, flood control and shipping that help power local economic and social development.

The hydropower plant features twelve 0.85-GW hydraulic generators, the world’s largest among those that have been put into operation in terms of capacity for a single unit.

Located on the mainstream of Jinsha River at the border of Sichuan and Yunnan provinces, Wudongde hydropower plant is the first of the four cascade hydropower stations in the downstream of the Jinsha River hydropower base. Construction of the project commenced at the end of 2015, and its first batch of power units went into operation on June 29, 2020. The power plant is scheduled to be put into full operation by July 1, 2021.

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