Probing into application of bulb hydraulic generating units in Fujian Province

摘要

Since the completion of the 36MW Fancuo Hydropower Station, in late eightieth on Jinxi River, Fujian, as the country's first medium size hydroelectric project built through collection of investment from multiple channels, construction of low head medium capacity hydropower stations taking advantage of an upper top reservoir has been developed rapidly. Major superiorities of such development are as follows: easy to mobilize the activity of local governments on energy construction investment; comparatively simple in civil works and low in building cost due to the low dam; short period of construction owing to broad site and easy transportation- usually the main works require only 2- 3 years to acquire the first benefit; less inundation resulting in better protection for farmland thus facilitating the local government to handle the resettlement process; promotive to regional economic development especially with the advantage of power regulation capability of the upper top reservoir and close in location to the load center.