Goupitan Dam

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]

Goupitan Dam
Location of Goupitan Dam in China
Official name	构皮滩大坝
Location	Guizhou, China
Coordinates	27°22′31″N 107°37′59″E
Status	Operational
Construction began	November 2003
Opening date	2009
Construction cost	¥13.842 billion
Dam and spillways
Type of dam	Double-curvature arch dam
Impounds	Wu River
Height	232.5 m (763 ft)
Length	557.11 m (1,828 ft)
Reservoir
Creates	Goupitan Reservoir
Total capacity	6,451,000,000 m^3 (5,229,911 acre⋅ft)
Catchment area	43,250 km^2 (16,699 sq mi)
Surface area	94.29 km^2 (36 sq mi)
Power Station
Commission date	2009
Turbines	5 × 600MW
Installed capacity	3,000 MW
Annual generation	9.667 TWh (est.)

Xinhua reported, on July 3, 2020, that the dam would be complete by March 2021.[5]

The dam is supplemented by the Goupitan shiplift, said to be the tallest shiplift in the world.[6]

See also

• List of power stations in China

References

1. "Goupitan Hydropower Station" (in Chinese). Eighth China Water Conservancy and Hydropower Engineering Bureau, Ltd. Retrieved 26 September 2011.
2. Goupitan Hydropower Project (PDF), Chinese National Committee on Large Dams, archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-04-16, retrieved 2010-03-12
3. "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.
4. "四在农家――余庆". Archived from the original on 2011-07-20. Retrieved 2008-02-09.
5. "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.
6. "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.