China starts work on largest hydropower station
CHINA: China on Monday started operation of its largest hydropower
station on the Yellow River after eight years under construction, the
official Xinhua news agency said.
Laxiwa Hydropower Station, located in northwestern Qinghai Province
and the upper reaches of the Yellow River, started running its first two
units, Xinhua said.
The station has the largest installed capacity, tallest dam and
highest outgoing voltage of all hydropower stations on the main stream
of the Yellow River, China's second-longest waterway.
The Laxiwa Hydropower Station, with a total installed capacity of 4.2
gigawatts and a 250 meter-high arch dam, would be a major source of
power for the development of China's west as well as the West-East
transmission project, Xinhua said. The other four generators of Laxiwa
would start running before the end of 2010, it added.
That will bring the total installed capacity of all the hydropower
stations on the upper stream of the Yellow River to more than 10 GW by
2010.
China has said it aims to raise its hydropower generating capacity by
three quarters to 300 gigawatts (GW) by 2020.
Beijing,Monday, REUTERS |