China’s highest-altitude hydropower station starts operation

The Yebatan Hydropower Station, the highest-altitude hyperbolic arch dam project under construction in China and a key project under the country’s 14th Five-Year Plan (2021-2025), has officially started generating electricity with its first two power generation units coming online on Saturday.

With a total installed capacity of 2.24 gigawatts, it is the largest hydropower station that has been commissioned in the upper reaches of the Jinsha River. After nearly a decade of construction, the station successfully delivered its first kilowatt-hour of green electricity.