TOP 10 – HYDROPOWER COMPANIES

FOUNDED: 1985 HEADQUARTERS: BEIJING, CHINA CEO: WEN SHUGANG EMPLOYEES: 130,000 INSTALLED CAPACITY: 29.6GW

China Huaneng Group is a heavyweight in the country’ s power sector, and its portfolio of hydroelectric installations is part of a much broader national generation system.

The company’ s Lancang River cascade in Yunnan province is one of the most ambitious run-ofriver hydropower developments in Asia, threading multiple large dams through some of the continent’ s most complex terrain. Huaneng’ s importance lies not just in capacity, though, but in the reliability it offers China’ s energy system as a whole.

Why this remote area of China is the hydropower centre of the world – WSJ

The Xiaowan Dam combines hydro and solar and can produce 5.4GW of energy energydigital. com 39