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# China’s 3 Gorges dam breaks record for hydropower China’s Three Gorges dam has broken the world record for annual hydroelectric power production, more than a decade after it became the world’s largest power plant, its operator said. The Yangtze river power station generated 98.8 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity in 2014, the Three Gorges Dam Corporation said in a statement, topping the 2013 production from the Brazilian-Paraguayan Itaipu dam. The amount of electricity generated by the Three Gorges plant is roughly equivalent to burning 49 million tonnes of coal, said thereby preventing 100 million tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions. But Concerns have been raised about its environmental and human cost of the huge project.
Posted on: Sun, 04 Jan 2015 05:20:48 +0000

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