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		</div><p>The first two generating units of the world’s second-biggest hydroelectric dam have been officially turned on in south-western China, the government announced.</p>
<p>The Baihetan Dam on the Jinsha River, a tributary of the Yangtze, is part of Chinese efforts to curb surging fossil fuel demand by building more hydropower capacity at a time when dams have fallen out of favour in other countries due to environmental complaints.</p>
<p>The announcement came ahead of the ruling Communist Party’s celebration this week of the official 100th anniversary of its 1921 founding.</p>
<p>The 954ft-tall dam is expected to have 16 generating units with a capacity of a million kilowatts each, making it second in size after the Three Gorges Dam, opened in 2003 on the Yangtze, with 22.5 million kilowatts of generating capacity.</p>
<p>Both were built by the state-owned Three Gorges Group, the world’s biggest investor in hydro, solar and wind generation.</p>
<p>Hydropower is losing support in other countries due to complaints that dams flood communities and farmland and disrupt the ecology of rivers, threatening fish and other species.</p>
<p>Despite criticism by environmentalists, Chinese leaders are building more dams in an effort to reduce reliance on coal and to curb surging demand for imported oil and gas.</p>
<p>China is a leader in developing ultra-high-voltage (UHV) transmission technology to move power from dams in the south west to Shanghai and other eastern cities.</p>
<p>Once fully operational, Baihetan Hydropower Station should eliminate the need to burn 20 million tons of coal annually, the official Xinhua News Agency said, citing Three Gorges Group.</p>
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