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Installed Power Capacity in Tibet Exceeds 350,000kw
[WTN-L World Tibet Network News. Published by The Canada Tibet Committee. Issue ID: 02/02/08; February 8, 2002.]
Asia Pulse (February 08, 2002)
Power Report
LAHSA, Feb 8 Asia Pulse - The installed capacity of power in Tibet has so far exceeded 358,000 kW, and the annual power output has reached over 700 million kWh.
Key power projects in the region are progressing smoothly. Construction of the middle Tibet power grid and the Lasha-Zetang power transmission line has started; the 110-kV Jinhe-Qamdo transmission line has been completed; and the Ngari Lighting Project has been completed. It is expected that the region has produced over 500 million kWh of electricity and sold nearly 400 million kWh in 2001, all up 9 per cent year-on-year.
It is learned that in the 10th Five-Year Plan period (2001-05), the region will speed up constructing four key hydropower stations; start constructing the Lasha-Zetang loop grid project, the power supply to Qinghai-Tibet Railway project, and three transmission lines; and upgrade the middle Tibet and Qamdo power grids.
Meanwhile, it will develop solar energy, small hydropower, geothermal energy resources and wind power in line with local conditions.