Yebatan Hydropower Station

The Yebatan Hydropower Station (Chinese: 叶巴滩水电站)[2] is the hydropower project with the largest installed capacity in the upper reaches of the Jinsha River.[3] It is located at the junction of Baiyu County in Sichuan Province and Konjo County in Tibet Autonomous Region.[4]

Yebatan Hydropower Station
叶巴滩水电站
CountryChina
Locationat the junction of Baiyu and Konjo[1]
PurposePower, flood control, navigation
Construction beganMarch 2017
Opening dateJune 27, 2017
Construction cost¥33.36 billion

Since it is an arch dam, it is also called as the Yebatan Arch Dam,[5] with a maximum height of 217 meters. The total investment in this project is ¥ 33.36 billion,[6] and its first generating unit is expected to be operational by 2025,[7] and the total installed capacity is 2.24 million kilowatts.[8]

History

In November 2016, the National Development and Reform Commission approved the construction of the Lawa Hydropower Station.[9] On June 27, 2017, construction of the Yebatan Hydropower Station officially began.[3]

On March 30, 2019, the upstream cofferdam of the plant was intercepted and the main construction of the project was fully underway.[10]

References
  1. "Work begins on 2.24 GW hydropower plant". Shanghai Daily. 2019-04-01.
  2. "叶巴滩水电站大坝混凝土浇筑施工仿真研究 (Simulation Study on Dam Concrete Placement Construction at Yebatan Hydropower Station)". CNKI. 2019-01-01.
  3. "Inventory of hydropower stations in Tibet". International Campaign for Tibet. May 30, 2019.
  4. "Construction of 2.24-GW hydropower station underway in upper Yangtze". Xinhuanet.com. 2019-03-31. Archived from the original on March 31, 2019.
  5. Zhang, Wen; Chen, Yuan; Yang, Bao-Quan; Zhang, Lin; Zhang, Chong; Liu, Xiao-Qiang (4 February 2019). "Experimental and numerical analyses on working performance of a high arch dam with deep-seated joints: Yebatan arch dam, China". Arabian Journal of Geosciences. 12 (4). doi:10.1007/s12517-019-4256-9. S2CID 134523731.
  6. "Reuters Basis Point:Yebatan Hydropower Station received RMB 26.7 billion in 32-year loans". Reuters. Jun 5, 2017.
  7. "China begins building major new power station in Tibet". Tibetan Review. April 2, 2019.
  8. "Changdu builds a national "West-to-East Power Transmission" connection base and accelerates". People's Daily. Mar 17, 2020.
  9. "The upstream of the Jinsha River has witnessed a period of rapid construction for hydropower development". Xinhuanet.com. 2019-04-03.
  10. "Largest upstream hydropower station on the Jinsha River intercepts flows". Xinhuanet.com. 2019-03-30. Archived from the original on March 31, 2019.


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