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YICHANG, Sept 2 Asia Pulse - China's Three Gorges Project will start generating power in August next year, according to the Yangtze River Three Gorges Project Development Corporation.
The company announced on September 1 that the No. 2 and No. 5 generating units will start production first, followed by the No. 3 unit in two months and the No. 6 unit in three months. The four units will yield a total of 5.5 billion kilowatt hours of electricity in 2003.
Located in Yichang, central China's Hubei Province, the Three Gorges Project is to have 26 units installed, each with a 700,000-kw capacity, by 2009. It will be the world's largest hydropower project with a total capacity of 18.2 million kw and an ...
Source: HighBeam Research, CHINA'S THREE GORGES PROJECT TO GENERATE POWER IN 2003.