China’s largest hydroelectric project , The Hydropower station has become an increasingly important bulwark for China when the country is striving to achieve carbon neutrality before 2060.
Located in one of China’s most water and biodiversity rich province Yunnan and being the largest hydropower station in the Lancang River basin, the Nuozhadu hydroelectric station not only serves as the country’s important clean energy provider, but also takes up onus of helping downstream Mekong River in easing their droughts and preventing those countries from suffering from floods. Moreover, it is also a creative practitioner of China’s “green development” philosophy as it set the standard of creating animal rescue and plant protection sectors within the station. China’s largest hydroelectric project , Those make Nuozhadu hydropower station not only a clean energy producer, also a rainforest-style garden that is contributing its own fair share for preserving the country’s biodiversity. This September marks the ten-year anniversary since first unit of Nuozhadu hydroelectric station, the largest hydropower station in the Lancang River basin – on the upper reaches of the Mekong River which connects six countries, has been put into use. A media tour group includes both Chinese and foreign journalists, organized by Changjiang Water Resources Commission of the Ministry of Water Resources, as well as Lancang-Mekong Water Resources Cooperation Center, which was established in 2017 in accordance with the Sanya Deceleration of the First Lancang-Mekong Cooperation Leaders’ Meeting in 2016, toured the Nuozhadu hydropower station to take a glimpse into how the station can manage shouldering both onus of neighboring countries and preserving biodiversity.
During the tour, the Global Times learned that the station generates 23.91 billion kilowatt-hours per year, equals power consumption of 9.56 million tons of coal and saving 18.77 tons of carbon emission per year, which renders it one of the country’s linchpin in transformation of clean energy, and an important role in achieving the goal of peak carbon emissions before 2030 and reach carbon neutrality before 2060. Nuozhadu is one of the major cascade power stations located on the upstream of Lancang River. China’s largest hydroelectric project , Together with nine other stations, they generate 930 billion kilowatt-hours since put into use, and spared the use of 330 million ton of coal, according to Zhou Lin, a senior official from Nuozhadu hydropower station, which was operated by Huaneng Lancang River Hydropower Inc, told the Global Times. The station also tops world’s records in terms of discharge power, flow rate and digital monitoring of the dam, according to Chen Jiangdong, employee of the station, saying that Nuozhadu deployed a top-notch digital monitoring technology which can realize real time and all-round monitoring of the dam, to guarantee its operation and safety.
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