The Yebatan Hydropower Station () is the hydropower project with the largest installed capacity in the upper reaches of the

Jinsha River The Jinsha River (, Tibetan: Dri Chu, འབྲི་ཆུ) is the Chinese name for the upper stretches of the Yangtze River. It flows through the provinces of Qinghai, Sichuan, and Yunnan in western China. The river passes through Tiger L ...

. It is located at the junction of

Baiyu County Baiyu may refer to: * Baiyu (singer), singer-songwriter and actress *Baiyü County Baiyü County ( or Pelyül) () is a county in far western Sichuan, China on the border with the Tibet Autonomous Region. It is under the administration of the ...

Sichuan Province Sichuan (; zh, c=, labels=no, ; zh, p=Sìchuān; alternatively romanized as Szechuan or Szechwan; formerly also referred to as "West China" or "Western China" by Protestant missions) is a province in Southwest China occupying most of the ...

and Konjo County in

Tibet Autonomous Region The Tibet Autonomous Region or Xizang Autonomous Region, often shortened to Tibet or Xizang, is a province-level autonomous region of the People's Republic of China in Southwest China. It was overlayed on the traditional Tibetan regions ...

. Since it is an

arch dam An arch dam is a concrete dam that is curved upstream in plan. The arch dam is designed so that the force of the water against it, known as hydrostatic pressure, presses against the arch, causing the arch to straighten slightly and strengthe ...

, it is also called as the Yebatan Arch Dam, with a maximum height of 217 meters. The total investment in this project is ¥ 33.36 billion, and its first generating unit is expected to be operational by 2025, and the total

installed capacity Nameplate capacity, also known as the rated capacity, nominal capacity, installed capacity, or maximum effect, is the intended full-load sustained output of a facility such as a power station,

is 2.24 million

kilowatts The watt (symbol: W) is the unit of power or radiant flux in the International System of Units (SI), equal to 1 joule per second or 1 kg⋅m2⋅s−3. It is used to quantify the rate of energy transfer. The watt is named after James W ...

History

In November 2016, the

National Development and Reform Commission The National Development and Reform Commission of the People's Republic of China (NDRC), formerly State Planning Commission and State Development Planning Commission, is a macroeconomic management agency under the State Council, which has b ...

approved the construction of the Lawa Hydropower Station. On June 27, 2017, construction of the Yebatan Hydropower Station officially began. On March 30, 2019, the upstream cofferdam of the plant was intercepted and the main construction of the project was fully underway.

References

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