Qinghai Nalingrad River Water Conservancy Project enters the unit commissioning stage before commissioning for power generation

China News Service, Xining, September 20 (Reporter Sun Rui) The reporter learned from the Propaganda Department of the Haixi Prefecture Committee of Qinghai Province on the 20th that the Narengrad River Water Conservancy Project, the largest water conservancy project in the state, has entered the unit commissioning stage before being put into operation for power generation.

The Narengrad River Water Conservancy Project is located in the Qaidam Basin with an arid climate. The annual average precipitation is only 42.8 mm, but the evaporation is as high as 2504 mm. During the flood season from June to September every year, runoff accounts for more than 70% of the entire year. "It is difficult to retain water when there is water in the flood season, and it is difficult for industry to lack water in the dry season." This has long-term constraints on regional development.

The Narengrad River Water Conservancy Project is one of the country's 172 major water conservancy projects for water conservation and water supply, with a total storage capacity of 588 million cubic meters. After completion, the multi-year average water supply capacity will reach 264 million cubic meters, with a water supply guarantee rate of 97.4%.

Relying on the first phase of the Qaidam Water Resources Allocation Project, the regulated water sources are transported in two lines: east and west. The west line goes directly to industrial parks such as Mangya and Lenghu, providing stable industrial water supply for the development of salt lake resources such as potassium fertilizer and lithium carbonate. The clean hydropower produced by the project can also be linked with regional wind energy and photovoltaics to form an integrated clean energy system of "hydropower + wind and solar storage".

In addition to industrial water supply, the project will also improve the flood control capacity of the river basin, protect the safety of facilities such as National Highway 315 and oil and gas transportation pipelines, while reducing groundwater overexploitation and help protect the salt lake ecology.

At present, the electromechanical installation of the three hydro-generator units has been completed, and the debugging work is progressing in an orderly manner.