Baihetan hydropower station set to be fully operational in milestone for China’s clean energy drive

Date: 2022-12-21

With its No.9 generating unit put into operation this morning, the CTG's 16-GW Baihetan hydropower project, the world's second-largest of its kind after the Three Gorges Project, is set to be operational.

With 16 one-gigawatt hydraulic generators, the world's largest in terms of capacity for a single unit, the project can generate 62.4 billion kWh of electricity a year, enough to meet the annual electricity needs of approximately 75 million people while saving approximately 19.68 million tonnes of standard coal and reducing CO2 emissions by approximately 51.6 million tonnes.

The Baihetan hydropower project, located downstream from the Jinsha River on the border of Yunnan and Sichuan provinces in southwestern parts of China, transmits electricity from the resource-rich west to energy-consuming regions in east China, contributing to the utilization of clean energy targets of the country.

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