Location

   Laxiwa Hydropower Station is the largest installed station in the north of our country, it is located in the branch of the Yellow River,Laxiwa village, Guide town, Qinghai province, it is 33KM from Longyangxia power station on the upstream, 134KM from Xining City, 25KM from Guide County in lower reaches. Laxiwa Hydropower Station is the largest hydropower project on the Yellow River Valley,which has the largest amount of energy and good economic benefit. Its main task is to generate electricity.

The difficulties of hydropower construction

  he first step to build Laxiwa Hydropower Station is to break the ice and clean the base. Because the outlet building foundation is dug out in the cliff, with snow and mountain water seepage, it was based on surface with more than 1 m thick ice. It was February at that time, the weather was very cold, the project had to begin before March 1st, and the ice must be cleared, the eleventh hydropower Bureau arranged 400 people to go to Laxiwa from Henan Sanmenxia.

Engineering structures

The normal water level Power plant is 2452m, the total capacity is 1.79 billion, the maximum height of the dam is 250m, power station installed capacity is 6 * 700MW, the guaranteed output is 990MW, annual power output is 10.223 billion.The main task of the project is generating. Project scale is the first level. The main building: dam, plant, the building to release flood is the first level, Secondary building: energy dissipation area is the third level; cross-strait high slope protection is the first level.