CHINA-SICHUAN-YALONG RIVER-LIANGHEKOU HYDROPOWER PLANT (CN)

CHINA-SICHUAN-YALONG RIVER-LIANGHEKOU HYDROPOWER PLANT (CN)

(220318) -- YAJIANG, March 18, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Aerial photo taken on Sept. 1, 2021 shows Lianghekou hydropower plant on the Yalong River in Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of Garze, southwest China's Sichuan Province. With the last 500,000-kW power generation unit officially putting into use, the Lianghekou hydropower plant built at an average altitude of 3,000 meters, the highest one of its kind in China, went fully operational on Friday. With a planned total installed capacity of 3 million kW and an approved investment of 66.5 billion yuan (about 10.5 billion U.S. dollars), construction of the project started in October 2014 and is expected to be fully completed by 2023, according to the Yalong River Hydropower Development Company, Ltd. The storage capacity of the reservoir is designed to reach 10.8 billion cubic meters, and the annual power generation volume is expected to surpass 11 billion kWh. The Yalong River basin is one of China's clean energy bases. The operation of the Lianghekou hydropower

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