Three Gorges project generates 150b kwhs of electricity in 3 years
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2007-03-12 09:58
The 22.5-billion-U.S.-dollar project was launched in 1993 in the midsection
of the Yangtze River, China's longest. Its 26 turbo-generators are designed to
eventually produce 84.7 billion kwhs of electricity a year after its scheduled
completion in 2008.
The electricity it produces will be enough to light
up Shanghai on a peak day with power to spare, while the
2.3-kilometer-long dam will help to controls annual floods that regularly
devastate the country's densely populated farming heartland.
Fourteen of
the designed 26 turbines are operating at full capacity and another four, each
with an installed capacity of 700,000 kw, will go into operation this year, said
the statement.
An earlier report said the Three Gorges and the
downstream Gezhouba power plant would generate 78.6 billion kwhs of electricity
this year, up 23 percent over the previous year.
The rising water level
in the Three Gorges Reservoir and new generators that were to come into
operation this year would help meet the target, said Cao Guangjing, deputy
general manager of the corporation, which manages the two power plants.
The water level in the Three Gorges Reservoir rose to the 156-meter mark
on October 27 last year. At full capacity, the level will rise to 175 meters in
2008.
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