In 1931, floods on the river caused the deaths of up to 4 million people. By providing flood storage space, the dam reduces the potential for flooding downstream which has historically plagued the Yangtze Plain. In addition to generating electricity, the dam was designed to increase the Yangtze River's shipping capacity. The last major component of the project, the ship lift, was completed in December 2015.
Combining the capacity of the dam's 32 main turbines with the two smaller generators (50 MW each) that provide power to the plant itself, the total electric generating capacity of the Three Gorges Dam is 22,500 MW. Each of the main water turbines has a capacity of 700 MW. The body of the dam was completed in 2006 the power plant was completed and fully operational by July 2012, when the last of the main water turbines in the underground plant began production. After the extensive monsoon rainfalls of 2020, the dam's annual production reached nearly 112 TWh, breaking the previous world record of ~103 TWh set by Itaipu Dam in 2016. The world's largest power station in terms of installed capacity (22,500 MW), the Three Gorges Dam generates an average 95☒0 TWh of electricity per year, depending on the annual amount of precipitation in the river basin. The Three Gorges Dam ( simplified Chinese: 三峡大坝 traditional Chinese: 三峽大壩 pinyin: Sānxiá Dàbà) is a hydroelectric gravity dam that spans the Yangtze River by the town of Sandouping, in Yiling District, Yichang, Hubei province, central China, downstream of the Three Gorges.
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