Sinohydro Completes Stator Erection for First Unit of China Huadian's Ludila Hydropower Station

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Researched by Industrial Info Resources China (Beijing, China)--Sinohydro Engineering Bureau 8 (Changsha, Hunan), a subsidiary of Sinohydro Corporation (Beijing), completed the stator erection for the first unit of China Huadian Corporation's (Beijing) Ludila Hydropower Station on August 9, 2012, according to an announcement from Sinohydro Corporation on August 13.

The Ludila Hydropower Station, located at the boundary between Yongsheng County of Lijiang City and Binchuan County of Dali City, is the seventh of eight steps in the cascade development scheme for the middle reaches of the Jinsha River. The project is built and operated by Yunnan Huadian Ludila Hydropower Company Limited (Kunming, Yunnan), a subsidiary of China Huadian Corporation. The main purpose of the project is power generation, together with other diversified benefits in water and soil conservation, navigation and tourism. The project mainly comprises of a 140-meter-high rolling compacted concrete (RCC) gravity dam and one right-bank underground powerhouse that is furnished with six 360-megawatt (MW), Francis-type hydraulic turbine generating units with a total installed capacity of 2,160 MW.

HydroChina Xibei Engineering Corporation (Xi'an, Shaanxi) is responsible for the design and engineering of the project. The main equipment for the project is supplied by Dongfang Electric Corporation Limited (Chengdu, Sichuan) and Tianjin Alstom Hydropower Equipment Company Limited (Tianjin). Sinohydro Engineering Bureau 14 and a consortium of Sinohydro Engineering Bureau 16 and Bureau 8 are responsible for the construction of the powerhouse works, the dam works, and the erection of the project, respectively.

As reported, the stator of Unit 1 weighs about 364 metric tons, and the erection is performed by the 550-ton bridge crane furnished in the powerhouse. The completion of the stator erection is an important milestone in the construction of the project, which will pave a firm foundation for the successful commissioning of the first unit in the first half of 2013. According to the schedule, the entire project will be completed by the end of 2015.

Upon completion, the project will be able to generate about one billion kilowatt-hours of renewable energy to the grid every year.

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