STORY: Three Gorges hydropower station generates over 1.6 trln kWh of electricity in 20 years
DATELINE: July 11, 2023
LENGTH: 00:00:58
LOCATION: WUHAN, China
CATEGORY: ECONOMY

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1. various of Three Gorges hydropower station

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Official data showed Monday that the Three Gorges Hydroelectric Power Station on China's Yangtze River has generated over 1.6 trillion kWh of electricity in 20 years since its first generator unit was put into operation to generate electricity in July 2003.
   
The clean energy produced by the hydropower station in the past two decades is estimated to be equivalent to the electricity generated by more than 480 million tonnes of standard coal and reduces carbon dioxide emissions by 1.32 billion tonnes.
   
With 34 hydropower turbo-generators, the hydropower station has a combined energy generating capacity of 22.5 million kilowatts and a designed annual power generation of 88.2 billion kWh.
   
The hydropower station, considered a backbone of China's electricity system, transmits clean electricity mainly to eastern, central and southern China.

Xinhua News Agency correspondents reporting from Wuhan, China.
(XHTV)