Goupitan Dam

Dam in Guizhou, China

27°22′31″N 107°37′59″E / 27.37528°N 107.63306°E / 27.37528; 107.63306StatusOperationalConstruction beganNovember 2003Opening date2009Construction cost¥13.842 billionDam and spillwaysType of damDouble-curvature arch damImpoundsWu RiverHeight232.5 m (763 ft)Length557.11 m (1,828 ft)ReservoirCreatesGoupitan ReservoirTotal capacity6,451,000,000 m³ (5,229,911 acre⋅ft)Catchment area43,250 km² (16,699 sq mi)Surface area94.29 km² (36 sq mi)Power StationCommission date2009Turbines5 × 600MWInstalled capacity3,000 MWAnnual generation9.667 TWh (est.)

The Goupitan Dam (simplified Chinese: 构皮滩大坝; traditional Chinese: 構皮灘大壩; pinyin: Gòupítān Dàbà) is an arch dam on the Wu River, a tributary of the Yangtze River in Guizhou Province, southwest of China. The dam's hydroelectric facility will operate on five turbines, each with a hydroelectric generating capacity of 600 MW, for a total of 3,000 MW. Constructions began on in 2003 and the first generator was operational in June 2009.^[1] All works were completed in 2011.^[2]^[3]^[4]

The dam is supplemented by the Goupitan shiplift, said to be the tallest boat lift in the world.^[5] Xinhua reported, on July 3, 2020, it would be complete by March 2021.^[6]

References

^ "Goupitan Hydropower Station" (in Chinese). Eighth China Water Conservancy and Hydropower Engineering Bureau, Ltd. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 26 September 2011.
^ Goupitan Hydropower Project (PDF), Chinese National Committee on Large Dams, archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-04-16, retrieved 2010-03-12
^ "构皮滩水电站工程情况简介_网易新闻中心". Archived from the original on 2006-09-02. Retrieved 2008-02-09.
^ "四在农家――余庆". Archived from the original on 2011-07-20. Retrieved 2008-02-09.
^ "Redaelli supplies the steel wire ropes for the tallest shiplift in the world". Redaelli. 2016-12-12. Archived from the original on 2018-09-13. Retrieved 2018-09-12. By mean of this ship-lift a water level difference of 199 meters is overcome by mean of 3 stage of lifting, the 2nd stage alone being 127 meters, more than the overall high of the Three Gorges dam.
^ "View of Goupitan hydropower station in Yuqing County, Guizhou". Xinhua. 2020-07-03. Archived from the original on 2020-10-13. Aerial photo taken on July 2, 2020 shows the vertical ship lift at the Goupitan hydropower station in Yuqing County, southwest China's Guizhou Province. Goupitan hydropower station navigation project is scheduled to be put into use in March, 2021.