Jilintai I Dam

Jilintai Dam
Location of Jilintai Dam
Country China
Location Nilka
Coordinates 43°51′40″N 82°50′51″E / 43.86111°N 82.84750°ECoordinates: 43°51′40″N 82°50′51″E / 43.86111°N 82.84750°E
Status Operational
Construction began 2001
Opening date 2005
Dam and spillways
Type of dam Embankment, concrete-face rock-fill
Impounds Kashgar River
Height 157 m (515 ft)
Length 445 m (1,460 ft)
Dam volume 8,360,000 m3 (10,934,467 cu yd)
Spillway type Open hole tunnel
Spillway capacity 876 m3/s (30,936 cu ft/s)
Total capacity 2,530,000,000 m3 (2,051,104 acre·ft)
Active capacity 1,700,000,000 m3 (1,378,212 acre·ft)
Power station
Turbines 4 x 115 MW Francis-type
Installed capacity 460 MW

The Jilintai I Dam is a concrete-face rock-fill embankment dam on the Kashgar River, 29 km (18 mi) east of Nilka in Xinjiang, China. The dam was constructed between 2001 and 2005 for several purposes but mainly hydroelectric power generation. It supports a 460 MW power station. The Jilintai I is the first of 10 dam projects on the Kashgar.[1][2][3] Construction of Jilintai II, directly downstream, begin in May 2008 and the 50 MW power station was commissioned in October 2010. The project, including the diversion dam, was complete in April 2011.[4]

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References

  1. "Xinjiang Jilintai power station" (in Chinese). Xiamen Anneg Construction Co. Retrieved 28 August 2011.
  2. "Jilintai Hydropower" (in Chinese). Baidu. Retrieved 28 August 2011.
  3. "China’s highest CFRDs". Chinese National Committee on Large Dams. Retrieved 28 August 2011.
  4. "Jilintai Stage II Hydropower Project, Nileke County, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region". UN FCC. Retrieved 28 August 2011.