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  2. Three Gorges Dam - Wikipedia

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    Three Gorges Dam annual power output Yangtze River flow rate comparing to the dam intake capacity Three Gorges Dam Installed Units and Annual Electricity Production Over Years (2003–2023) By August 16, 2011, the plant had generated 500 TWh of electricity. [72] [73] In July 2008 it generated 10.3 TWh of electricity, its first month over 10 TWh ...

  3. Three Gorges - Wikipedia

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    When the Three Gorges project began, a dam was built around this fortress for its protection. The Zhang Fei Temple (張桓侯廟), of Yun Yang County of Chongqing, constructed no later than the Song dynasty, stood on the south bank of the Yangtze River in the northern foothills of the Feng Fei Mountains. Being close to the Yangtze River it was ...

  4. Yangtze River cruise - Wikipedia

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    Yangtze River cruise (Chinese: 长江旅游) is a river cruise on the Yangtze, the longest river in China and in Asia. It has historically been called the Three Gorges cruise ( Chinese : 长江三峡旅游 ) because of the cruise in the Three Gorges , the most exciting part of the river.

  5. Record floods raise questions about China's Three Gorges Dam

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    As China counts the costs of its most punishing flood season in more than three decades, the role played by the massive and controversial Three Gorges Dam - designed to help tame the Yangtze river ...

  6. India concerned as China approves world’s largest dam in Tibet

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    The outlay for building the dam is expected to eclipse the 254.2bn yuan (£27.80bn) it cost to construct the Three Gorges dam. The Yarlung Zangbo river is seen during a government organized visit ...

  7. Yangtze - Wikipedia

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    The Three Gorges Dam in 2006 Diagram showing dams planned for the upper reaches of the Yangtze River. As of 2007, there are two dams built on the Yangtze river: Three Gorges Dam and Gezhouba Dam. The Three Gorges Dam is the largest power station in the world by installed capacity, at 22.5 GW.

  8. List of tallest dams in China - Wikipedia

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    The tallest embankment dam in China is the 261 m (856 ft) Nuozhadu Dam in Yunnan. The country's highest gravity dam is Longtan Dam at 216.2 m (709 ft), which can be found in Guangxi . [ 3 ] At 233 m (764 ft), Shuibuya Dam in Hubei is the world's tallest concrete-face rock-fill dam .

  9. List of largest hydroelectric power stations - Wikipedia

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    The Three Gorges (22,500 MW - 32 × 700 MW and 2 × 50 MW) is operated jointly with the much smaller Gezhouba Dam (2,715 MW), the total generating capacity of this two-dam complex is 25,215 MW. The Itaipu on the Brazil–Paraguay border has 20 generator units with overall 14,000 MW of installed capacity, however the maximum number of generating ...