On the morning of December 31,China Renewable Energy Engineering Institute(CREEI) organized relevant units and departments to form the Jindong River Wudongde Hydropower Station Water Storage Acceptance Committee to carry out the Wudongde Hydropower Station water storage acceptance work. CREEI hosted the Wudongde Hydropower Station Water Storage Acceptance Conference in Kunming. The meeting considered that the Wudongde Hydropower Station project has the first stage of water storage to the reservoir water level of 895 meters, and agreed to start the sluice water storage work in January 2020.
Wudongde Hydropower Station is the first cascade of four water elevator stages in the lower reaches of the Jinsha River in the Sichuan-Yunnan boundary river. It is also the third mega-kilowatt hydropower station in China after the Three Gorges and Xiluodu. The large hydropower station has an installed capacity of 10.2 million kilowatts and an average annual power generation of 38.91 billion kilowatt-hours. The construction of the power station involves 10 counties in 4 cities in Yunnan and Sichuan. The population to be relocated is 31958 people.
