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Shilongba Hydropower Station

Xishan District, China

The 2785th largest power station in the world

70 MW · Capacity

The Shilongba Hydropower Station, also called as Shilongba Dam, is the first hydropower station in Mainland China. "Shilongba" refers to "Stone Dragon Dam". The plant is located upstream of the Tanglang River in Haikou Town, Xishan District, Kunming City, Yunnan Province. At present, the hydropower station is still operating normally, and the more than 20 million kWh of electricity that it keeps producing each year is still being delivered to parts of China.

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

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