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Houziyan Dam

China

The 505th largest power station in the world

1.7 GW · Capacity

The Houziyan Dam is a hydroelectric embankment dam on the Dadu River in Danba County, Sichuan province, China. The dam is 223.5 m tall and withholds a reservoir with a normal capacity of 662 million m3. It supports a power station with a 1,700 MW capacity, distributed in 4 x 425 MW generators.

Power station data from Wikidata (CC0). Summary from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

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