Project Partners Request: PIN: Laopokou Small Hydropower Project, PR China

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Earliest project start date: January 2006
Expected first year of CER delivery: January 2008
Crediting period: 10 years
Project lifetime: A modern small hydroelectric plant is normally functional for more than 40 years

This CDM project activity consists of constructing a small hydropower station in Rucheng county to enhance the socio-economic development in the area.

The Laopokou hydroelectric project would be located on the lower reaches of the Qijiang river, in Rucheng County, Hunan Province. Plant capacity will be 24,000 kW (two vertical 12,000 kW Francis type turbines) at 72 m net head, with an associated maximum hydraulic capacity of 21.1 m³/s. Annual energy output of the station would be 85,370 GWh.

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