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The core components of the world's first 500 MW unit were shipped to Tibet
Seetao 2025-07-15 14:49
  • China's hydropower equipment has achieved global leadership, and major breakthroughs have been made in clean energy technology
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On July 7, 2025, the core components of the world's first 500 MW hydropower unit independently developed by China officially departed for Tibet, marking a major breakthrough in the field of large-scale hydropower equipment in China. The core components of this 80-ton giant unit, known as the "heart of hydropower", have successfully broken the monopoly of foreign technology and made China one of the world's hydropower equipment manufacturing powers.

The unit was completed by a Chinese scientific research team after five years of research, and adopted more than 30 innovative technologies, many of which are the world's first. The core components of the unit are made of special alloy materials, which realizes lightweight design while ensuring strength, and the overall performance indicators have reached the international leading level. In particular, it is worth mentioning that the unit innovatively adopts an intelligent monitoring system, which can perceive the operating status in real time, which greatly improves the operation reliability and maintenance convenience.

The units will be installed at the new hydropower station in Bayi District, Nyingchi City, Tibet, which will generate 2.5 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity per year, equivalent to reducing standard coal consumption by 800,000 tons and carbon dioxide emissions by 2 million tons per year. This will not only provide a strong clean energy guarantee for Tibet's economic and social development, but also strongly promote the realization of our country's "dual carbon" goal.

Industry experts said that the successful development of the unit is a vivid embodiment of our country's equipment manufacturing industry from following and running to leading. It not only fills the technical gap in the field of ultra-large capacity hydropower units in China, but also forms a technical system with completely independent intellectual property rights, laying a solid foundation for China's hydropower equipment to "go global". This will not only provide stable clean energy for southeast Tibet, but also strongly promote the realization of our country's "dual carbon" goal. In the future, this technology will also play an important role in major national projects such as hydropower development in the lower reaches of the Brahmaputra River.(This article is from the official website of Seetao www.seetao.com. Reprinting without permission is strictly prohibited. Please indicate Seetao.com + original link when reprinting) Seetao.com Strategy Column Editor/Sun Fengjuan

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