Three Gorges Dam sets power generation record in 2020
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Updated: 2021-01-01 20:50
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Three Gorges Dam sets power generation record in 2020. [Photo by Huang Zhengping/For chinadaily.com.cn]
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.