摘要
1 Project positioning Baihetan Hydropower Station is classified as the second of the four hydropower cascades in the lower reaches of the Jinsha River:Wudongde,Baihetan,Xiluodu and Xiangjiaba.As an important backbone project for China to implement the strategy of West-to-East Power Transmission and optimize the energy structure,it constitutes an important part of the Yangtze River flood control system.Located at the junction of Ningnan County,Sichuan Province and Qiaojia County,Yunnan Province,the hydropower station is the largest hydropower project under construction in the world,with a unit capacity of million-kilowatts ranking the highest in the world and a total installed capacity of 16 million kW,second only to the Three Gorges Project,ranking the second in the world.
