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China builds hydropower station on upper Yangtze

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Publish time: 29th April, 2016      Source: www.cnchemicals.com
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China Huadian Corp. has started the construction of Suwalong hydropower station on the Jinsha River, the upper section of the Yangtze River, local authorities said on April 28.The project has a designed capacity of 1.2 GW and will be able to generate about 5.4 TWh of electricity per year.A 112-meter-high dam will be built to form a reservoir that can store about 674 million cubic meters of water.Suwalong project is at the junction of Mangkam County, Tibet Autonomous Region, and Batang County, Sichuan Province, in southwest China, according to Qamdo resources development bureau, which administers Mangkam.It will cost nearly 18 billion yuan ($2.77 billion), and will support development across the Tibetan-inhabited area.The first of its four generating units is expected to start operation in 2021.