China's Three Gorges Project, the country's largest hydropower
project, has been completed by 90 percent, the operating company
has announced.
The 22.5-billion-U.S.-dollar project was launched in 1993 in the
midsection of the Yangtze River, China's longest.
According to the China Three Gorges Project Corporation, its 26
turbo-generators are designed to eventually produce 84.7 billion
kwhs of electricity a year after its scheduled completion in
2008.
Three to four, each with an installed capacity of 700,000 kw,
will go into operation this year, said the company, adding 14 of
the designed 26 turbines are operating at full capacity.
The Three Gorges Project has generated 150 billion kwhs of
electricity in three years, fuelling 15 provinces in central,
eastern and southern China, easing a severe power shortage in their
industrial regions, said the company in an earlier statement.
(Xinhua News Agency March 24, 2007)