China's first ultra-high voltage direct current power transmission line began operating Thursday, linking eight provinces from Xiangjiaba in Sichuan province to Shanghai city, the Shanghai city government said on its official website.
China's first ultra-high voltage direct current power transmission line
began operating Thursday, linking eight provinces from Xiangjiaba in Sichuan
province to Shanghai city, the Shanghai city government said on its official
website.
The 800-kilowatt UHV direct current line is 1,907 kilometers long and could
bring 35 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity to
Shanghai
city
every year, about 39% of the city's total power consumption.
China
's
power distribution monopoly State Grid Corp. started construction on the
project in December 2008.
The company plans to complete another 800-kilowatt UHV direct current line from
Jinping in
Sichuan
province to Sunan in
Jiangsu
province in 2012.
State Grid brought a UHV alternating current power transmission line online in
January 2009, stretching from
Shanxi
province to
Hubei
province.
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