Two pumped-storage hydropower plants with a total capacity of 2.4 GW have been commissioned in China’s southern province of Guangdong. The Meizhou and Yangjiang stations are expected to produce 3.4 TWh/year of electricity when they enter full operation. The total investment for the construction of these two power plants was about CNY15bn yuan (or US$2.24bn). With three 400 MW units each, they are currently the pumped storage power plants with the largest single unit capacity in China.
With the addition of those two power plants, the installed pumped-storage capacity in the Guangdong province has surpassed 10 GW. Pumped-storage only represents about 1.4% of the country’s total installed capacity (around 30 GW in 2020), but in September 2021, China’s National Energy Administration unveiled a plan to expand the pumped-storage capacity to 62 GW in 2025 and 120 GW in 2030.
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