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Men work on building a hydropower facility at a construction site of Baihetan hydropower station, in Liangshan Yi Autonomous Region in Sichuan province, China May 28, 2019. Picture taken May 28, 2019. REUTERS/Stringer/Files
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SHANGHAI, June 28 (Reuters) - The giant Baihetan hydropower plant on the upstream branch of China's Yangtze river has begun generating electricity for the first time on Monday, state broadcaster CCTV reported.
The project's first two 1-gigawatt (GW) turbines will start operating after a three-day trial, CCTV said. The project will eventually consist of 16 such units, making its total generation capacity second only to the Three Gorges Dam once it is completed in July next year.