When the last set of units of China’s Baihetan Hydropower Station went into operation in late December 2022, China finished building a clean energy corridor on the Yangtze River.
Located at the border of Sichuan and Yunnan provinces, Baihetan Hydropower Station, the second-largest in the world in terms of installed capacity, is defined as a key national project to transfer electricity from the west to the east. Since June 28, 2021 when the first turbines went into use, the station has generated more than 53 billion kilowatt-hours (kWh) of electricity for resource-hungry Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces.
Along with another five big hydropower stations on the Yangtze River, China Three Gorges Corporation (CTGC), which built Baihetan, has completed the world’s biggest clean energy corridor with 110 hydro-generating units whose total annual power generation hit 300 billion kWh, equal to that of 90.45 million tons of standard coal.
During the construction, CTGC implemented a number of ecology protection projects, such as a fish passage around the dam and zoning areas for ecological repair.
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