Laxiwa dam

Laxiwa dam
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Drain: Yellow River
Qinghai , People's Republic of China
Coordinates	36 ° 4 '14 "  N , 101 ° 11' 7"  E Coordinates: 36 ° 4 '14 "  N , 101 ° 11' 7"  E
Data on the structure
Construction time:	until 2010
Height of the barrier structure :	250 m
Building volume:	2.58 million m³
Crown length:	460 m
Power plant output:	4200 MW
Data on the reservoir
Altitude (at congestion destination )	2452 m
Storage space	1,060 million m³
Particularities:

The Laxiwa Dam on the Yellow River , also known as Longyang Gorge Dam, is under construction in the Chinese province of Qinghai . The dam is 250 meters high after also located in construction Xiaowan Dam be the second highest in China. (The dam wall of the Three Gorges project is significantly lower at 110 m.) Two further large dams are being planned in China: Jinping I and Xiluodu .

The hydropower plant will be the largest on the Yellow River with an installed capacity of 4200 MW. With six turbines of 650 MW each, 10.23 TWh should be generated annually  . This is to cover the peak consumption in the power grid in northwest China.

The dam is a double-curved arch dam in a relatively narrow valley. The outlets of the flood relief go through the dam. The power plant is housed in an underground cavern on the right bank.

See also

• List of hydropower plants in China
• List of dams in China
• List of the largest dams on earth
• List of the largest reservoirs on earth

Web links

• Photos from the construction of the Longyang Gorge Dam: [1] [2]
• China high Dams Table 2, page 37 (PDF file 95.7 kB)
• Laxiwa (PDF file)

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1. ↑ ^{a b c} china.org.cn: Floods, Landslides Cause China's Death Toll to Rise Xinhua News Agency, July 23, 2007.
2. ↑ Google Earth Community: China Power Station