Largest Hydro Station in China
Published on by Water Network Research, Official research team of The Water Network in Government
China Begins Building Largest Hydropower Station in Tibet
China has started building its largest hydropower station over the Yalong river in Tibet to tap the rich water resources in the southwest of the plateau.
The hydropower station, which straddles the Yalong River in Sichuan's Ganzi Tibetan autonomous prefecture, has an installed generating capacity of three gigawatts with a total reservoir capacity of 10.8 billion cubic metres, state-run Xinhua news agency reported.
The first generator is expected to come into service at the end of 2021 and the entire station is to be completed in 2023.
The Yalong is a tributary of the Yangtze River. Its source originates from the Tibet-Qinghai Plateau in southeast Qinghai, and its confluence with the Yangtze is in Panzhihua in southwestern Sichuan.
China has reported to have built about 23 dams of different sizes on the same river.
Chinaalso plans to construct huge dams over the Brahmaputra river in Tibet which has raised concerns in India.
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