China's Three Gorges generates record amount of electricity

The Three Gorges Power Plant generated a record high generated 98.1 billion kwh in 2012.

The power generation volume grew 25 percent year on year and accounted for about 14 percent of the country's total power generated by hydropower plants in the same year.

By the end of 2012, the plant had generated 629.1 billion kwh of electricity, equivalent to a reduction of nearly 500 million tonnes of carbon dioxide.

The Three Gorges Project consists of a dam and a five-tier ship dock, in addition to the 32 generators.

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