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The No. 5 power generating unit of China's mammoth Three Gorges Project will officially begin to supply electricity for China's power grid on July 16, six days after the No. 2 unit.
An official with the Yangtze River Three Gorges Project Development Corporation said the No. 5 unit would undergo a 30-dayexamination before going into commercial operation in mid-August.
The 700,000-kw unit successfully completed a 72-hour test run for the power grid by 4:32 p.m. Sunday.
The Three Gorges Project in Yichang, central China's Hubei Province, is designed to hold 26 units each with a generating capacity of 700,000 kw.
The project commissioned its first power generating unit, the No. 2 unit, and linked it to the power grid on July 10.
Together, the two units will daily supply more than 26 million kwh of electricity to the power grid.
(Xinhua News Agency July 14, 2003)
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