{"id":423165,"date":"2021-06-29T11:07:19","date_gmt":"2021-06-29T05:37:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=423165"},"modified":"2021-06-29T13:15:47","modified_gmt":"2021-06-29T07:45:47","slug":"china-turns-on-worlds-second-biggest-hydropower-dam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/china-turns-on-worlds-second-biggest-hydropower-dam\/","title":{"rendered":"China turns on world&#8217;s second-biggest hydropower dam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BEIJING: The first two generating units of the world&#8217;s second-biggest hydroelectric dam were officially turned on Monday in southwestern China, the government announced. <\/p>\n<p>The Baihetan Dam on the Jinsha River, a tributary of the Yangtze, is part of Chinese efforts to curb surging fossil fuel demand by building more hydropower capacity at a time when dams have fallen out of favor in other countries due to environmental complaints. <\/p>\n<p>The announcement comes ahead of the ruling Communist Party&#8217;s celebration this week of the official 100th anniversary of its 1921 founding. <\/p>\n<p>Plans call for the 289-meter-tall (954-foot-tall) Baihetan Dam to have 16 generating units with a capacity of 1 million kilowatts each.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BEIJING: The first two generating units of the world&#8217;s second-biggest hydroelectric dam were officially turned on Monday in southwestern China, the government announced. The Baihetan Dam on the Jinsha River, a tributary of the Yangtze, is part of Chinese efforts to curb surging fossil fuel demand by building more hydropower capacity at a time when dams have fallen out of favor in other countries due to environmental complaints. The announcement comes ahead of the ruling Communist Party&#8217;s celebration this week of the official 100th anniversary of its 1921 founding. Plans call for the 289-meter-tall (954-foot-tall) Baihetan Dam to have 16 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,246,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-423165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-times-of-india","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=423165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423165\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=423165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=423165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=423165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}