Liyuan Dam

The Liyuan Dam is a concrete-face rock-fill dam on the Jinsha River on the border of Yulong County and Shangri-La County, Yunnan Province, China. The dam has an associated hydroelectric power station with a 2,400 MW power station containing 4 x 600 MW generators. Construction on the river diversion for the dam began in 2008. It began to impound its reservoir in November 2014 and on December 28, 2014 the first generator was commissioned. The second generator was commissioned in July 2015.

The 155 m dam withholds a reservoir of 727000000 m3, of which 209000000 m3 is active or "useful" storage. The normal reservoir level is 1618 m above sea level with a minimum of 1602 m. The catchment area for the reservoir in the upstream basin is 220000 km2 while the reservoir surface area is 14.73 km2.