Three Gorges Dam
Hydroelectric dam that spans the Yangtze River by the town of Sandouping, China
Also known as 3 Gorges Dam · Three Gorges
- Country
- Located in
- Elevation
- 185 m
- , 4 m
- Founded
- 1994
1
- 1994
- Located in/on physical feature
Overview
All data
64 statements · 11% with external sources · numbers in brackets are citations
- Opened
- 2003
- Annual energy output
- 103.65 TWh(2021)
- 100,000 GWh(2018)
- 97,600 GWh(2017)
- 93,500 GWh(2016)
- 87,000 GWh(2015)
- Hydraulic head
- 80.6 m
- Width
- 40 m applies to part: dam crest
- 115 m applies to part: level of foundation
- Watershed area
- 1,000,000 km²
- Native label
- 三峽大壩
- 三峡大坝
- Nominal power output
- 22,500 MW(since 2012)
- Service entry
- 2003
- Powered by
- Francis turbine quantity: 14 · nominal power output: 700 MW · service entry: September 2005
- Francis turbine quantity: 12 · nominal power output: 700 MW · service entry: July 2009
- Francis turbine quantity: 6 · nominal power output: 700 MW · service entry: July 2009
On other databases
21 identifiers linking Three Gorges Dam across the web's reference databases
- Brockhaus Enzyklopädie online IDdrei-schluchten-talsperre
- Encyclopædia Britannica Online IDtopic/Three-Gorges-Dam
- Encyclopædia Universalis IDbarrage-des-trois-gorges
- Encyclopedia of China (Third Edition) ID (2026)4zpSV
- Encyclopedia of China (Third Edition) old ID (2021)116297
- Freebase ID/m/0hbcr
- GeoNames ID6354946
- Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names ID7029726
- Global Energy Monitor Wiki IDThree_Gorges_Dam_hydroelectric_plant
- GND ID4508514-6
- Great Norwegian Encyclopedia IDTre_kløfter-demningen
- Great Russian Encyclopedia portal IDtri-ushchel-ia-gidroelektrostantsiia-9cafc2
- J9U entity ID987007552102505171
- Namuwiki ID싼샤 댐
- NL CR AUT IDge360244
- OmegaWiki Defined Meaning876979
- OpenStreetMap way ID894098127
- Pixiv Encyclopedia ID三峡ダム
- Quora topic IDThree-Gorges-Dam
- Structurae structure ID20001073
- Tripadvisor ID504960