Ahai Dam

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The Ahai Dam is a dam under construction with a rolled concrete ( RCC) gravity dam on the Jinsha Jiang in a circle Yulong, Lijiang Prefecture, Yunnan Province in the People's Republic of China. She stands about 5 km from the mouth of the Cuiyu away.

The hydropower plant is equipped with five Francis turbines with 400 MW, which corresponds to a total capacity of 2000 MW. Thus, approximately 8.887 billion kilowatt hours of electricity can be generated annually.

In December 2011, the impounding of the reservoir began in 2012 and is the first generator becomes operational. The construction costs amount to 13.6 billion yuan or 2 billion U.S. dollars.

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