An aerial view of the Poyang Lake converter station of the ±800-kilovolt Yazhong-Poyang Lake UHV DC power transmission project in Fuzhou, Jiangxi Province [Photo/Xinhua]
The ±800-kilovolt ultra high voltage (UHV) direct current (DC) transmission project linking Yazhong in Southwest China's Sichuan Province and Poyang Lake in East China's Jiangxi Province went into operation on June 21.
Workers inspect the converter transformer at the Poyang Lake converter station in Fuzhou, Jiangxi Province, on June 18. [Photo/Xinhua]
A major player of China's west-to-east power transmission project, the 1,696-kilometer power line passes Sichuan, Yunnan, Guizhou, Hunan and Jiangxi provinces and has a designed power transmission capacity of 36 billion kilowatt-hours.
Workers inspect facilities at the Poyang Lake converter station in Fuzhou, Jiangxi Province, on June 18. [Photo/Xinhua]
(Executive editor: Niu Yilin)
