The
dam burst after a week of rain.
这水坝在一星期的降雨后破裂了。
We should
dam out feelings.
我们应控制自己的感情。
The
dam was in danger because of the rising flood.
洪水猛涨， 大坝告急。
Beavers build
dams and birds make nests.
海狸筑坝，鸟筑巢。
The six hydropower stations operated by the company, including the Three Gorges Dam project — the world's largest hydropower project — and the Baihetan hydropower station, generate 700 million kWh of clean power everyday, with a peak maximum output exceeding 43 million kilowatts, a record high, it said.
该公司表示，该公司运营的六个水电站，包括世界上最大的水电项目三峡大坝项目和白鹤滩水电站，每天产生7亿千瓦时的清洁电力，峰值最大输出超过4300万千瓦，创历史新高。
The Nestor Kirchner-Jorge Cepernic hydropower plant, the world's southernmost hydroelectric dam with a capacity of 1,310 MW, is expected to be put into commercial operation by the end of 2024.
Nestor Kirchner Jorge Cepernic水电站是世界上最南端的水电站大坝，容量1310兆瓦，预计将于2024年底投入商业运营。
After the power station was put into operation, it has stepped up tree planting and ecological restoration in surrounding areas to ensure the operation of the dam does not affect the local environment.
电站投入运行后，已加强周边地区的植树造林和生态修复，确保大坝运行不影响当地环境。
Group expands at a time when renewables are in demand due to neutrality pledgeBack in 2008, the Three Gorges Dam was completed and became the world's biggest hydroelectric power project.
该集团在可再生能源需求旺盛之际进行扩张。2008年，三峡大坝建成，成为世界上最大的水电项目。
However, the Dongyuemiao data center, located near the Three Gorges Dam, uses green and low-carbon hydropower, which will not only lower the cost of the power but also significantly reduce pollution.
然而，位于三峡大坝附近的东岳庙数据中心使用绿色低碳水电，不仅可以降低电力成本，还可以显著减少污染。
That included the fifth megawatt unit of the company's Baihetan Hydropower Station, which straddles Yunnan and Sichuan provinces and is second in output only to the world's largest, the Three Gorges Dam.
其中包括该公司白鹤滩水电站的第五兆瓦机组，该水电站横跨云南省和四川省，产量仅次于世界最大的三峡大坝，位居第二。
The fifth megawatt unit of the company's Baihetan Hydropower Station, second only to the world's largest Three Gorges Dam project, was put into operation on Monday, adding green momentum to the power supply for this winter and the upcoming spring.
该公司白鹤滩水电站的第五台兆瓦机组于周一投入运行，仅次于世界上最大的三峡大坝项目，为今冬和即将到来的春天的电力供应增添了绿色动力。
The cluster will have an installed capacity of 46.46 million kilowatts, which is equivalent to twice the output of the Three Gorges Dam in the middle reaches of the Yangtze, and will generate about 190 billion kWh annually.
该集群的装机容量为4646万千瓦，相当于长江中游三峡大坝产量的两倍，年发电量约1900亿千瓦时。
At a ceremony held in Wuhan on Sunday, the corporation signed strategic cooperation agreements with governments of Hubei, Wuhan as well as Yichang City, where the Three Gorges Dam is located, for 154 planned major projects with a total value of 364.5 billion yuan (56.4 billion US dollars).
With a 6,500-meter dam, the station has an installed capacity of 400,000 kilowatts, 14 percent of the country's total.
The Three Gorges Dam, China's largest water project, has played a key role in water adjustment and energy generation on the Yangtze River.
To better help those leaving the area to make way for the dam, as many as two cities, 10 counties and 114 townships, together with 830 kilometers of roadways, have so far been constructed.
Wei Hanyang, a power market analyst at Bloomberg New Energy, said the new UHV line will deliver power from Wudongde Dam, which is a major Yunnan site serving the Guangdong power market.
It is dubbed the "smartest" mega hydropower station in the world with the highest level of intelligent construction in China's dam industry, including thermometers and cooling pipes in the concrete to detect the concrete temperature in real time and the intelligent water flow system to automatically adjust the flow to realize the cooling process of concrete in an intelligent way.
Xiluodu Hydropower Station and Xiangjiaba Hydropower Station, together with Baihetan and Wudongde hydropower stations, will form a cascade of power stations on the Jinsha River, a cluster that is expected to reach an installed capacity of 46.46 million kilowatts, equivalent to twice the output of the Three Gorges Dam in the middle reaches of the Yangtze, and will generate about 190 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity annually.
China Three Gorges Corp, the builder and operator of the world's biggest hydroelectric power project, the Three Gorges Dam, announced on Monday the commencement of 25 new energy projects with a total investment of 58 billion yuan ($8.25 billion).
On the right bank of the dam, a clear stream flows through the woods downstream of the saddle dam.
The 400-megawatt dam is the largest and the seventh one built by China in Cambodia.
The Lower Sesan 2 dam, 56.5 meters tall, covers a 36,000-hectare plot.
The $1.74 billion Karot hydropower project will solve the power supply bottleneck in the country and provide sustainable and stable energy support, said the company, which is also the builder and operator of the world's biggest hydroelectric power project - the Three Gorges Dam.
The project, which is currently under system debugging, is the longest 800kV ultrahigh voltage electricity transmission project worldwide and spans 78 cities in Brazil, including Rio de Janeiro and across the huge Belo Monte hydroelectric dam in the Amazon area of the populous center-south region.
ADDIS ABABA - Chinese construction and engineering company, China Gezhouba Group Co Ltd (CGGC), has signed a contract agreement with the Ethiopian government to take part in the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD).
According to the contract agreement involving $40.1 million, CGGC will take part in pre-power generation activities of Ethiopia's grand hydro-electric dam, which will be regarded as Africa's largest hydro dam upon completion with a total volume of 74,000 million cubic meters, the Ethiopian Electric Power (EEP) revealed on Tuesday.
Ethiopian Electric Power head, Abrham Belay, said during the signing ceremony in Ethiopia's capital Addis Ababa that the agreement with CGGC is expected to speed up construction of the dam.
Meanwhile, the two sides signed Memoranda of Understanding on the construction of a dam and auto assembly plant in Zimbabwe by Anhui Shui'an Construction Group and JAC Auto, respectively.
TUNIS－Wearing red-and-white safety helmets, around 20 Chinese and Tunisian mechanics were binding reinforcement bars on the floor at a dam project which is under construction.
"I have worked in this dam construction for one year," said the 24-year-old Wael Torkhani, a local resident.
"Passing through the mountains in El Kef province in northwestern Tunisia, the dam is built by Chinese power construction company Sinohydro, over the Mellegue River, which provides major water resources for over 240,000 inhabitants in the province.
"The main function of the dam is irrigation and flood control," said Qiu Yusheng, the project manager.
"Sinohydro signed a contract with the Tunisian government in 2016, according to which the dam will be completed in 2022 and become one of the largest dams in Tunisia.
"This dam, with a total storage capacity of 190 million cubic meters of water, will protect the region from flood and meet the needs for irrigation and domestic use of water in the region," said Qiu.
Torkhani told Xinhua that around 30 young men in his neighborhood worked at this dam.
The dam construction gave his life a leap.
"According to Qiu, the dam project has recruited more than 130 local workers so far, and plans to recruit over 400 in the next few years.
He works with six Tunisian apprentices at the dam.
In energy, electricity consumption per capita has increased more than 1,500 percent since 1978, and projects such as the Three Gorges Dam Hydroelectric Power Plant, to which GE provided 14 generation units, and the West to East Gas Pipeline, to which GE provided over 110 pieces of compression equipment, are marvels of engineering, as China is moving toward cleaner energy.
"But when the dam breaks, producers will move in unison to increase prices.
The greenery coverage rate of the group's plant area is now 46.45 percent, with the vegetation coverage over its tailings dam amounting to more than 600,000 square meters.
The Beijing-based hydropower company will boost construction of offshore wind power farms both at home and abroad, said Wang Feng, vice-president of CTG Europe, the European branch of CTG, the builder and operator of the world's largest hydropower project Three Gorges Dam.
STUNG TRENG, Cambodia — The 400-megawatt Lower Sesan II Hydropower Plant, which is Cambodia's biggest hydropower dam so far, will start operation in November after almost four years of construction.
Cambodian Prime Minister Samdech Techo Hun Sen and Chinese Ambassador to Cambodia Xiong Bo presided over a ceremony to close the dam's water gates on Monday.
"I can say that it is the biggest-ever hydroelectric power dam in Cambodia," he said.
According to the Cambodian Ministry of Mines and Energy, Chinese enterprises have invested for seven dam projects in Cambodia.
LA PAZ — Bolivian Energy Minister Rafael Alarcon said Friday that Chinese company Sinohydro has won a tender to build the Ivirizu hydroelectric dam.
A total of five working groups will build the dam itself as well as tunnels, while installing hydromechanical equipment and setting up transmission lines, Alarcon said in the city of Cochabamba.
With a 300-meter-high dam, the project can manage a basin area of 430,000 square kilometers, 91 percent of the Jinsha River's basin area.
PHNOM PENH — The Lower Sesan II Hydropower Plant, which is Cambodia's biggest hydropower dam, will begin testing its first-phase operation on July 15 after more than three years of construction, the Electricity Authority of Cambodia (EAC) said on Wednesday.
The 400-megawatt hydropower dam, situated in northern Cambodia's Stung Treng province, is a joint venture between China's Hydrolancang International Energy holding 51 percent of the stake, and Cambodia's Royal Group and Vietnamese EVN International Joint Stock Company possessing 39 percent and 10 percent, respectively.
When the dam is operational, the electricity will be sold to the Electricity of Cambodia at the fixed price of 6.95 cents per kilowatt-hour.
The mega project, comprising three combined cycle power plants and 12 wind parks, will generate a total output of 16.4 gigawatts, which are eight times as much as the output of the Aswan High Dam.
Visitors take photos of the Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze River in Yichang, Hubei province.
[Photo/China Daily]Company's activities involve more than 5 million kilowatts of installed capacityChina Three Gorges Corporation, builder and operator of the world's biggest hydroelectric power project - the Three Gorges Dam - has vowed to increase energy supplies to economies related to the Belt and Road Initiative.
The shipping throughput via the Three Gorges Dam, the world's largest hydropower project on the upper stream of the Yangtze River, reached a record high of 172.34 million metric tons in 2023, said its operator China Three Gorges Corporation on Thursday.
The Three Gorges project is a multi-functional water-control system, consisting of a dam measuring 2,309 meters long and 185 meters high, five-tier ship locks on the north and south sides, and 34 turbo-generators with a combined power generating capacity of 22.5 million kilowatts.
In Pakistan's northwestern province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, the 272-meter-high Diamer-Bhasha Dam on the River Indus is under intensive construction.
As a landmark project of China-Pakistan friendship and cooperation, it will be the tallest roller compact concrete dam in the world, with an installed capacity of 4.5 million kW once completed, generating an estimated 18.1 billion kWh of electricity every year.
Phavady told Xinhua that this has been her dream job since she was a kid because she had a childhood memory with a dam and she saw her father as a role model.
- The total cargo throughput via the ship locks at the Three Gorges Dam, the world's largest hydropower project, hit a new record in the first half of this year, the Three Gorges Navigation Authority said Saturday.
The Three Gorges project is a multi-functional water-control system, consisting of a 2,309-meter-long and 185-meter-high dam, five-tier ship locks on the north and south sides, and 34 turbo-generators with a combined generating capacity of 22.5 million kilowatts.
Notably, the Sirindhorn Dam in northeastern Thailand combines a floating solar farm with an existing hydropower plant.
PowerChina Harbour Co Ltd, a subsidiary of Power Construction Corporation of China, a centrally-administered State-owned enterprise, said the Zuerat Dam project in Mauritania built by the Chinese company will substantially ensure drinking water supplies to local communities after the construction work passed final inspection in September.
Located in the inland mining area in Zuerat, a large town in Mauritania, the concrete gravity dam is 19.1 meters high and 23.3 meters long.
The dam is the first water conservancy project in the region and is expected to provide water for residential, industrial and animal husbandry uses in affected areas once it becomes operational, said Cui Yongyue, PowerChina Harbour's vice-president.
Even though a water conservancy facility is urgently needed, the dam's construction in the region was difficult due to complicated geologic conditions, Cui said.
Therefore, the Zuerat Dam project has been highly valued by the local government and the people since construction started.
The Baihetan hydropower station on the Jinsha River, the upper section of the Yangtze, has completed the dam body project today after nearly 50 months of construction, with its first batch of generating units going into operation by July 2021.
Straddling the southwest provinces of Yunnan and Sichuan, Baihetan has a total installed capacity of 16 million kilowatts, second only to the world's largest Three Gorges Dam project, with a capacity of around 22.4 million kilowatts.
When constructing the hydropower station, the Chinese contractor built a fishway in the dam to facilitate aquatic life to migrate in both directions.
On the bank of the dam, a clear stream flows through the woods.
The Chejiang dam vegetable base, located in Rongjiang county, southeastern Guizhou, utilizes gradual gradients and rolling hills in the region for cultivation.
Four of them, Wudongde, Baihetan, Xiluodu and Xiangjiaba, are located along the Jinsha River, the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, while the other two — Three Gorges Dam and Gezhouba — are situated on the middle section of the Yangtze River.
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.
- The cargo throughput through the ship lock of the Three Gorges Dam, part of the world's largest hydropower project, totaled 127 million tonnes in the first three quarters this year, up 10.02 percent year-on-year, data showed Sunday.
Located on the Jinsha River, the upper section of the Yangtze River in Southwest China, Baihetan has a total installed capacity of 16 million kilowatts -- second only to the Three Gorges Dam project.
It is only second to the Three Gorges Dam in Central China's Hubei province in terms of total installed capacity.
Along with the 22.5 GW Three Gorges Dam, China has built the world's largest new energy corridor on the Yangtze River.
The cargo throughput via the five-tier ship locks at the Three Gorges Dam, the world's largest hydropower project in the upper stream of the Yangtze, reached a record high of 102 million tons during the first eight months of this year, according to the China Three Gorges Corporation.
"During the January-August period, nearly 24.5 million tons of key materials including coal, diesel, and grain were transported via the Three Gorges Dam, up 6.3 percent year on year, according to the corporation.
It is able to generate four times as much power as the Three Gorges Dam, according to BloombergNEF, a research institute covering energy, commodities and the digital industry.
More than 25 million tons of cargo were shipped through the Three Gorges Dam project of the Yangtze River and the Changzhou ship lock of the Xijiang River, up significantly by 14.1 percent month-on-month.
Zhang Xingliao, general manager of China Yangtze Power, said the ship generates zero pollution and zero emissions, as it is powered by clean hydropower electricity from the Three Gorges Dam.
It signals that China has taken the global lead in research, manufacturing, installation and operation of large-scale typhoon-resistant floating offshore wind turbines, said the company, which is also the developer of the world's largest hydropower project, the Three Gorges Dam, which broke ground in 1994 in Hubei province.
The first phase of solar and wind projects is more than the entire wind and solar capacity installed in India, according to BloombergNEF, and it will be able to generate four times as much power as the Three Gorges Dam, it said.
"The new dam will mainly support Guangdong province, and help alleviate the recent power shortage issues in the coastal economic engine," said Wei Hanyang, a power market analyst at Bloomberg New Energy Finance.
It is designed as a concrete double-curved arch dam with a maximum height of 270 meters.
The foundation bed of the dam is only 51.41 meters thick, which makes the hydropower station the thinnest 300-meter arch dam in the world at present.
The dam also marks the world's first to be fully built by low-heat cement, which can help reduce the dam's temperature stress significantly as the big temperature differences between day and night and low humidity will lead to cracks if ordinary cement is used.
The cluster will have an installed capacity of 46.46 million kilowatts, which is equivalent to twice the output of the Three Gorges Dam in the middle reaches of the Yangtze, and will generate about 190 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity annually.
The Three Gorges Dam, the world's biggest hydroelectric plant in terms of installed capacity, generated 111.795 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity in 2020, its operator announced, setting a new world record for annual power generation volume from a single hydropower station.
Clean electricity generation for all of 2020 reached 111.795 billion kilowatt-hours as of 12:00 pm Dec 31, smashing the previous world record of 103.098 billion kWh set by South America's Itaipu Dam in 2016, China Three Gorges Corporation said.
The volume of the clean electricity the Three Gorges Dam generated in 2020 is equivalent to saving 34.39 million tons of standard coal and reducing emissions of carbon dioxide, sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides by 94.02 million, 224,000 and 212,000 tons respectively, a boon to China's efforts to build a clean, safe, efficient and low-carbon energy system and contributing to its green development initiatives.
According to estimates by economists, one kilowatt-hour of electricity can produce 13.8 yuan of gross domestic product, therefore the massive electricity of 111.8 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity the Three Gorges Dam generated in 2020 might have supported 1.54 trillion yuan's worth of GDP.
The Three Gorges Dam has increased electricity supply during peak hours to regions where its electricity is used, filling the electricity supply gap.
The Three Gorges Dam is a backbone supplier of electricity in the country, supplying electricity to East and South China.
The dam, equipped with 34 turbo generators with a combined generating capacity of 22.5 million kilowatts, has a designed annual power generation of 88.2 billion kilowatt-hours.
The dam is located in Wan'an county, Ji'an, Jiangxi province.
On Monday, the scenic areas of the Three Gorges Dam, the largest water conservation project in China, were also reopened.
Qu explained in a news conference on Tuesday that the surging price of raw materials was mainly due to a shortfall in the global iron market, as a mining dam disaster in Brazil and a cyclone in Australia caused supply disruptions.
"The hydropower sector of the country is among the first batch that explored the international market, from the Shweli River Hydropower Station in Myanmar built by China Huaneng Group in 2006 to the Karot hydropower project in Pakistan by China Three Gorges Corp. "The Karot hydropower project is China's first overseas hydropower program to use its own technology and standards, and is expected to finish in two years and start power generation by April 2021, according to China Three Gorges Corp, which is also the builder and operator of the world's biggest hydroelectric power project, the Three Gorges Dam.
Domestic iron ore miners are unlikely to ramp up production to fill the supply gap after the bursting of Vale's dam last month in Brazil, due to strict environmental regulations and high production costs, said industry insiders.