The Chinese state-owned power utility State Grid Corporation of China has commissioned the 3.6 GW Fengning pumped-storage hydropower plant. The US$1.9bn plant, consisting of twelve 300 MW reversible pump-turbine units, was built by Gezhouba Group in two 1.8 GW phases. Construction started in May 2013. Located in Hebei province, some 180 km from Beijing, the project, which is expected to generate 6.6 TWh/year and store 8.7 TWh/year, will operate as a peaking power plant for the safe and stable operation of the Beijing-Tianjin-North Hebei grid, while balancing intermittent power supply from large wind and solar parks in northern Hebei and Inner Mongolia.
China is targeting 62 GW of operational pumped-storage hydropower plants by 2025 and 120 GW by 2030. The country currently has 33.3 GW of pumped-storage hydropower capacity (end of 2020).
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