Three Gorges sees power boost

The Three Gorges power plant, the country’s largest hydropower project, generated 97.6 billion kilowatt-hours (kwh) of electricity in 2017, up 4.35 percent year-on-year.

Located in the middle reaches of China’s longest river, the Yangtze, the Three Gorges power plant has an installed generating capacity of 22.4 gigawatts.

In a statement to the Shanghai Stock Exchange on Wednesday, China Yangtze Power Co, the operator of Three Gorges, said it generated a total of 210.9 billion kwh of electricity last year, up 2.35 percent year-on-year.