As of Jan 28, 2023, the Baihetan Hydropower Station, the world's second-largest, had generated more than 60 billion kilowatt-hours of power.
The power amount equals that produced by burning about 18.09 million metric tons of standard coal, and represents a reduction of about 49.68 million tons of carbon dioxide, which adds a great deal to China's green transformation in economic and social development and to meeting its goals of peaking carbon dioxide emissions by 2030 and reaching carbon neutrality by 2060.
A major project of China's west-to-east power transmission program, the hydropower station generated 760 million kWh of clean power during the Spring Festival holiday. The power was sent to East China's Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces about 2,000 kilometers away through dedicated ultra-high-voltage power transmission lines within 7 milliseconds.
Located over the Jinsha River on the border of Southwest China's Yunnan and Sichuan provinces, the station is installed with 16 domestically-developed hydro-generating units, each with a capacity of one million kilowatts, the largest single-unit capacity in the world.
With a total installed capacity of 16 million kilowatts, the first units of the station were put into operation on June 28, 2021, and all of them were online by Dec 20, 2022.
A view of the Baihetan Hydropower Station, the world's second-largest, which is located over the Jinsha River on the border of Southwest China's Yunnan and Sichuan provinces [Photo/sasac.gov.cn]
(Executive editor: Wang Ruoting)
