page_title: Lhasa (prefecture-level city)
section_title: Power
hierarchical_section_title: Lhasa (prefecture-level city) / Infrastructure / Power
caption_attribution_description: English: Yangbajing geothermal power station in Tibet
context_page_description: Lhasa is a prefecture-level city, one of the main administrative divisions of the Tibet Autonomous Region of China. It covers an area of 29,274 square kilometres of rugged and sparsely populated terrain. Its capital and largest city is Lhasa, with around 300,000 residents, which mostly corresponds with the administrative Chengguan District, while its suburbs extend into Doilungdêqên District and Dagzê District. The consolidated prefecture-level city contains additional five, mostly rural, counties.
  The city boundaries roughly correspond to the basin of the Lhasa River, a major tributary of the Yarlung Tsangpo River. It lies on the Lhasa terrane, the last unit of crust to accrete to the Eurasian plate before the continent of India collided with Asia about 50 million years ago and pushed up the Himalayas. The terrane is high, contains a complex pattern of faults and is tectonically active. The temperature is generally warm in summer and rises above freezing on sunny days in winter. Most of the rain falls in summer.
context_section_description: The Yangbajain Geothermal Station was established in 1977 to exploit the Yangbajain Geothermal Field in Damxung.
  It is the first geothermal power station to be built in Tibet and is the largest geothermal steam power plant in China.
  4,000 kW of electricity from Yangbajain began to be delivered to Lhasa in 1981 along a transmission line that followed the Doilung Qu River.
  It was the main power supply for Lhasa until the Yamdrok Hydropower Station came into operation.
  By the end of 2000 eight steam turbo generators had been installed at the Yangbajain Geothermal Station, each with capacity of 3,000 kW, giving a total of 25,000 kW.
  The geothermal field delivers 25,181 kilowatts, or 100 million kilowatts annually, to the city of Lhasa to the south.
  The Pangduo Hydro Power Station has been called "Tibet's Three Gorges Dam".
  It impounds the Lhasa River in Pondo Township of Lhünzhub County, about 63 kilometres (39 mi) from Lhasa.
  It is at an elevation of 13,390 feet (4,080 m) above sea level, upstream from the 100MW Zhikong Dam at 12,660 feet (3,860 m).
  The rock-fill dam impounds 1,170,000,000 cubic metres (4.1×10¹⁰ cu ft) of water.
  The power station has total installed capacity of 160 MW.
  The Zhikong Hydro Power Station lies between the middle and lower reaches of the Lhasa River, also called the Kyi River.
  It is about 100 kilometres (62 mi) northeast of Lhasa, in Maizhokunggar County.
  It is at an elevation of 12,660 feet (3,860 m) above sea level, downstream from the Pangduo Hydro Power Station.
  The Zhikong Dam, a rock-fill dam, is 50 metres (160 ft) tall.
  It impounds 225,000,000 cubic metres (7.9×10⁹ cu ft) of water.
  Installed capacity is 100 MW.
caption: Yangbajain Geothermal Field
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