Three Gorges Power Station crosses 100b kWh power generation mark in 2021

Date: 2022-01-14

Three Gorges Power Station generated a total of 103.649 billion kilowatt-hours (kWh) electricity as of 12:00 a.m. December 31, 2021, crossing the 100 billion mark again.

The volume of the clean electricity is equivalent to a reduction of 31.758 million tons of standard coal and cutting emissions of 86.858 million tons of carbon dioxide,19,400 tons of sulfur dioxide, and 20,200 tons of nitrogen oxides respectively.

The 22.5-GW Three Gorges Power Station is the world’s biggest hydropower plant in terms of installed capacity. It set a new record for annual power generation volume from a single hydropower station in 2020, smashing the previous world record of 103.098 billion kilowatt-hours set by South America"s Itaipu Dam in 2016. Apart from achieving the annual power generation of over 100 billion kilowatt-hours for two years in a row, the Three Gorges Project also achieved significant benefits in a wide range of areas such as flood control, navigation, and water resource utilization.

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