{"id":4209,"date":"2012-04-07T03:16:37","date_gmt":"2012-04-07T03:16:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.generalknowledgetoday.com\/?p=4209"},"modified":"2012-04-07T03:16:37","modified_gmt":"2012-04-07T03:16:37","slug":"the-three-gorges-dam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/?p=4209","title":{"rendered":"The Three Gorges Dam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <strong>Three Gorges Dam<\/strong> is a hydroelectric dam that spans the Yangtze River by the town of Sandouping, located in the Yiling District of Yichang, in Hubei province, China.<strong> The Three Gorges Dam is the world&#8217;s largest power station<\/strong> in terms of installed capacity (21,000\u00a0MW) but is second to Itaipu Dam with regard to the generation of electricity annually.<\/p>\n<p>The dam body was completed in 2006. Except for a ship lift, the originally planned components of the project were completed on October\u00a030, 2008, when the 26th turbine in the shore plant began commercial operation. Each turbine has a capacity of 700\u00a0MW. The last two turbines in the underground power plant are not expected to become fully operational until May 2012. Coupling the dam&#8217;s thirty-two main turbines with two smaller generators (50\u00a0MW each) to power the plant itself, the total electric generating capacity of the dam will eventually reach 22,500\u00a0MW.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<table cellspacing=\"5\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<th scope=\"row\">Country<\/th>\n<td>China<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th scope=\"row\">Location<\/th>\n<td>Sandouping, Yiling, Hubei<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th scope=\"row\">Coordinates<\/th>\n<td><small><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Show location on an interactive map\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/5\/55\/WMA_button2b.png\/17px-WMA_button2b.png\" alt=\"\" \/>30\u00b049\u203248\u2033N 111\u00b000\u203236\u2033ECoordinates: <img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Show location on an interactive map\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/5\/55\/WMA_button2b.png\/17px-WMA_button2b.png\" alt=\"\" \/>30\u00b049\u203248\u2033N 111\u00b000\u203236\u2033E<\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th scope=\"row\">Status<\/th>\n<td>Operational<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th scope=\"row\">Construction\u00a0began<\/th>\n<td>December 14, 1994<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th scope=\"row\">Opening\u00a0date<\/th>\n<td>2008<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th scope=\"row\">Construction\u00a0cost<\/th>\n<td>\u00a5180\u00a0billion (US$26\u00a0billion)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th scope=\"row\">Owner(s)<\/th>\n<td>China Yangtze Power<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Three Gorges Dam is a hydroelectric dam that spans the Yangtze River by the town of Sandouping, located in the Yiling District of Yichang, in Hubei province, China. The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/?p=4209\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[231],"tags":[3748,3749],"class_list":["post-4209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-do-you-know","tag-the-three-gorges-dam","tag-the-three-gorges-dam-is-the-worlds-largest-power-station","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4209\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}