| Baihetan Dam | |
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| Official name | 白鹤滩大坝 |
| Coordinates | |
| Construction began | 2008 |
| Opening date | 2019 |
| Dam and spillways | |
| Type of dam | Arch |
| Height | 277 metres (909 ft) |
| Impounds | Jinsha River |
| Reservoir | |
| Capacity | 17,924,000,000 m3 (14,531,223 acre·ft)[1] |
| Power station | |
| Turbines | 18 × 725 MW |
| Installed capacity | 13,050 MW |
The Baihetan Dam (simplified Chinese: 白鹤滩大坝; traditional Chinese: 白鶴灘大壩; pinyin: Báihètān Dàbà) is a large hydroelectric dam under construction on the Jinsha River, a tributary of the Yangtze River) in Sichuan and Yunnan provinces, in the southwest of China. The facility will generate power by utilizing eighteen turbines, each with a generating capacity of 725 MW, totalling the generating capacity to 13,050 MW. In terms of generating capacity, it will be the third largest hydroelectric power plant in the world, after the Three Gorges Dam and Itaipu.[2] When finished, it will be the third largest dam in China and the fourth in the world, in terms of dam volume. Construction on the dam began in 2008 and is expected to be complete in 2019.[3]