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title: "Three Gorges Dam Completed"
year: 2012
country: "China"
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# Three Gorges Dam Completed

> The world's largest hydroelectric installation submerged ancient valleys and displaced over a million people to power China's industrial ascent.

## Summary

The Three Gorges Dam, officially known as Yangtze River Three Gorges Water Conservancy Project is a hydroelectric gravity dam that spans the Yangtze River near Sandouping in Yiling District, Yichang, Hubei province, central China, downstream of the Three Gorges. It is also the world's largest power station by installed capacity (22,500 MW); it generates 95±20 TWh of electricity per year on average, depending on the amount of precipitation in the river basin. After the monsoons of 2020, the dam produced nearly 112 TWh in a year, breaking the record of 103 TWh set by the Itaipu Dam in 2016.

## Sources

- [Three Gorges Dam](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Gorges_Dam) - Wikipedia

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