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Fig. 3.6 (A) Largest hydro plant in the world by installed capacity—Three Gorges Dam
(21,100MW el (planned power 22,500MW el )—700MW el 30+2 50MW el Francis turbines)
(Yangtze River, China) [1]. The project costs $26 billion. Height of gravity dam is 181m,
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length: 2.335km, top width: 40m, base width: 115m, flowrate: 116,000m per s, artificial lake
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capacity: 39.3km , surface area: 1045km , length: 600km, maximum width: 1.1km, normal
elevation: 175m, and hydraulic head: 80.6–113m. (B) Schematic of conventional hydroelectric
power plant.
(A) Courtesy of Chinese National Committee on Large Dams; (B) Courtesy of Ontario Power
Generation (OPG), Canada (www.opg.com).
