China’s Yalong River Hydropower Development Company has started construction works on the 2.1 GW Daofu pumped-storage hydropower plant located in the Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of Garze, in the Sichuan Province (western China). The project is hailed as the world's highest-altitude large-scale pumped-storage power plant, at an altitude of 4,300 metres. Once completed, the CNY15.1bn (US$2.1bn) project will be able to generate nearly 3 TWh/year of electricity. The Daofu pumped-storage project is expected to store 12.6 GWh of electricity daily, meeting the power consumption needs of approximately 2 million households in Sichuan.
China aims to build more than 200 pumped storage plants with a combined capacity of 270 GW by 2025. At the end of 2022, China’s pumped storage capacity reached 45.8 GW, a 26% increase compared to 2021 and a more than twofold increase compared to ten years earlier (20.3 GW in 2012).
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