Longkaikou Dam

Longkaikou
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Location: Yunnan Province Tributaries: Jinsha Jiang Drain: Jinsha Jiang Major cities nearby: Lijiang
China
Coordinates	26 ° 31 '50 "  N , 100 ° 24' 54"  E Coordinates: 26 ° 31 '50 "  N , 100 ° 24' 54"  E
Data on the structure
Lock type:	RCC gravity dam
Construction time:	2007-2013
Height of the barrier structure :	119 (113) m
Building volume:	4.53 million m³
Crown length:	798 m
Power plant output:	1 800  MW
Operator:	Huadian Power
Data on the reservoir
Storage space	544 (657) million m³

The Longkaikou Dam is a dam under construction on Jinsha Jiang (Chinese name for the upper reaches of the Yangtze River ) near Lijiang in Yunnan Province , People's Republic of China . The dam will be a 119 m high weight dam (according to other information 113 m) made of rolled concrete (RCC). Construction work began in 2007 and was interrupted by the Ministry of the Environment in June 2009 because construction had been carried out without an environmental assessment and without a permit. Around 2000 people have to be resettled for the reservoir. There will also be fish production in the reservoir.

In the hydropower plant completed in 2013, five turbines each drive a generator with an output of 360 MW each. The total output of the systems is thus 1800 MW. This means that 7.82 billion kWh of energy can be produced in an average year  .

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
• List of the largest hydroelectric plants in the world

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ministry suspends key projects , China.org, June 12, 2009, accessed June 3, 2012 (English)
2. ↑ Jinsha River Dams, International Rivers, November 11, 2011, accessed June 3, 2012.
3. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento from March 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive )