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State Grid of China switches on
world’s largest pumped-hydro station
Located in China’s Hebei province, the 3.6GW
facility consists of 12 reversible pump generating sets with a
capacity of 300MW each and has a power generation capacity from
storage of 6.612 billion kWh.
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The Fengning Pumped Storage Power
Station. Image: State Grid Corp of China
The
State Grid Corporation of China, which is China’s largest
state-owned grid operator and power utility, has commissioned, last
week, the
3.6GW Fengning Pumped Storage Power Station, a pumped-storage
hydroelectric power station located in Hebei province.
The construction of the
$1.87 billion project, which was implemented in two 1.8GW phases, was
started by engineering company China Gezhouba Group Company Limited in
2014.
The facility consists of 12
reversible pump generating sets with a capacity of 300MW each and has
a power generation capacity from storage of 6.612 billion kWh. It is
connected to the Zhangbei VSC-HVDC power grid and the North China
500kV power grid, State Grid said in a statement.
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The core of the Fengning Pumped
Storage Power Station. Image: State Grid Corp of China
State Grid chairman, Xin
Baoan, stressed this is the first time in China that a pumped-hydro
storage plant has been connected to a flexible DC network.
According to the National
Energy Administration, China is targeting 62GW of operational
pumped-hydro facilities by 2025 and 120GW by 2030. Currently, it has
30.3GW of operational pumped-hydro stations, according to the
International Renewable Energy Agency.
*The article was amended
on January 5 to reflect that 6.612 billion kWh is the facility's power
generation capacity from storage, and not its storage capacity, as we
previously reported.
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