{"id":160524,"date":"2023-03-17T16:31:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-17T21:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/china-nears-completion-of-its-highest-hydroelectric-project-at-16404-feet"},"modified":"2023-03-17T16:31:00","modified_gmt":"2023-03-17T21:31:00","slug":"china-nears-completion-of-its-highest-hydroelectric-project-at-16404-feet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/china-nears-completion-of-its-highest-hydroelectric-project-at-16404-feet","title":{"rendered":"China nears completion of its highest hydroelectric project at 16,404 feet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/china-nears-completion-of-its-highest-hydroelectric-project-at-16404-feet2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Maerdang plant will have a total installed capacity of around 2.2 million kW.<\/p>\n<p>In an effort to ramp up its renewable energy production, China is on course to begin operations of its highest-altitude hydropower.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\n<b>A clean energy initiative to optimize resources<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The Maerdang project will feature an integrated clean energy approach that includes hydropower, <a href=\"https:\/\/interestingengineering.com\/innovation\/what-are-solar-panels\" title=\"solar\" rel=\"dofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">solar<\/a> power, and energy storage. The project serves as an example of how China is leveraging its clean energy sources in its western regions to supply the growing national demand for energy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe company vows to make sure the project is put into operation in time despite COVID-19 impacts during the past few years,\u201d said Li Hongxin, deputy director of Qinghai Maerdang Co Ltd, a unit of China Energy, told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chinadaily.com.cn\/a\/202303\/15\/WS64111baea31057c47ebb484a_2.html\" title=\"China Daily\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">China Daily<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Maerdang plant will have a total installed capacity of around 2.2 million kW. In an effort to ramp up its renewable energy production, China is on course to begin operations of its highest-altitude hydropower. A clean energy initiative to optimize resources The Maerdang project will feature an integrated clean energy approach that includes hydropower, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1633],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-160524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-solar-power"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160524\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}