China's highest-altitude mega hydropower plant goes operational
Xinhua | Updated: 2021-09-29 13:25
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CHENGDU - A mega hydropower plant built at an average altitude of 3,000 meters, the highest one of its kind in China, went into operation on Wednesday.
The first two 500,000-kW power generation units went operational at the Lianghekou hydropower plant on the Yalong River in Tibetan autonomous prefecture of Garze, Sichuan province, marking the operation of the plant with a planned total installed capacity of 3 million kW.