20 Jan 2012 12:45

Liaoning Province's pumped-storage hydro plant starts operations

Beijing. January 20. INTERFAX-CHINA - The Pushihe pumped-storage hydropower plant in northeast China's Liaoning Province has commenced operations, the National Energy Administration announced Jan. 20.

The first of the plant's four 300-kilowatt generators went online Jan. 18, according to the announcement. Construction on the RMB 4.5 billion ($712.70 million) plant in east Liaoning's Kuandian Manchu Autonomous County began in 2006.

The plant's other three generators will go online by the end of this year, the announcement said. The plant is expected to produce 1.86 million megawatt hours of power annually once fully operational.

- LYB