World's largest energy corridor generates impressive power
The world's largest clean energy corridor generated more than 276 billion kilowatt-hours of green power last year, a 5.34 percent year-over-year increase, said its operator China Three Gorges Corporation.
This is equivalent to saving 83 million metric tons of standard coal and reducing carbon dioxide emissions by more than 200 million tons, it said.
With a total installed capacity of 71.7 million kilowatts, the corridor comprises six mega hydropower stations on the Yangtze River, the largest river in China. Comprising 110 generating units, it transmits electricity from the resource-rich west to energy-consuming regions in the east of China.
Four of them, Wudongde, Baihetan, Xiluodu and Xiangjiaba, are located on the Jinsha River, the upper section of the Yangtze River, while the other two, the Three Gorges Dam and Gezhouba, are on the middle section of the Yangtze.
They form a 1,800-km-long clean energy corridor that also plays a major role in flood control, shipping, water resources utilization and ecological security in the Yangtze River Basin, said China Three Gorges Corporation.
Related articles
Four people killed in a house explosion in southwestern Missouri
GOODHOPE, Mo. (AP) — Four people in rural Missouri died when an explosion that could be heard 10 mil2024-05-21Kervin Arriaga scores for the second straight game and Minnesota United ties the LA Galaxy 2
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Kervin Arriaga scored in the 80th minute for his second goal in two games and2024-05-21Rishi Sunak faces backlash on prisons as government triggers emergency overcrowding plan
Rishi Sunak is facing a backlash on prisons today after the government triggered an emergency overcr2024-05-21Tragic toddler, three, drowned in the bath after switching the taps on at home, inquest hears
A three-year-old girl drowned in a bath at her home after somehow managing to switch the taps on, an2024-05-21Investigators return to Long Island home of Gilgo Beach serial killing suspect
MASSAPEQUA PARK, N.Y. (AP) — Investigators returned Monday to the home of a New York architect charg2024-05-21Woman who married a man 19 YEARS her senior lifts the lid on what it is really like to be in an age
A woman who married a man 19 years her senior has lifted the lid on what it is really like being in2024-05-21
atest comment