On June 20, 2020, SDIC announced that the company has recently received the “Response for the Approval of the Sichuan Provincial Development and Reform Commission on the Yalong River Kala Hydropower Project” (Chuan Fa Gai Energy [2020] No. 323), Sichuan Development and Reform The committee agreed to build the Yalong River Kara Hydropower Station.

Kara Hydropower Station is located in Muli County, Liangshan Prefecture, and is the final level in the approved hydropower plan for the middle reaches of the Yalong River (two estuaries to Kara River section). The power station is developed by dam type, with a total installed capacity of 1.02 million kilowatts. The average annual power generation is 3.997 billion kilowatt-hours when operating alone, and the average annual power generation is 4.524 billion kilowatt-hours when operating in conjunction with the upstream two Hekou Reservoir Power Stations. The total construction period of the project is 83 months.

The power station hub is composed of riverbed roller compacted concrete gravity dam, dam body drainage and underground water diversion for power generation on the right bank. The maximum height of the riverbed roller compacted concrete gravity dam is 126 meters. The normal storage level of the reservoir is 1987 meters, the corresponding storage capacity is 237.8 million cubic meters, and the storage capacity is adjusted to 306.5 million cubic meters, with daily adjustment capacity.

According to the calculation of the price level in the fourth quarter of 2019, the static investment of the project is 13.388 billion yuan, and the total investment of the project is 17.121 billion yuan. The project capital is about 3.424 billion yuan, accounting for 20% of the total project investment. Karalong Hydropower Station is constructed and managed by Yalong River Basin Hydropower Development Co., Ltd., with 52% of the company’s investment and 48% of Sichuan Investment Group Co., Ltd.’s investment. Editor/Zhao Jing