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The project is located on Tongxi River, Chun’an County, Hangzhou City, Zhejiang Province, China. It is a run-of-river hydropower plant with an installed capacity of 32MW (2 x16MW), the water is diverted from an existing reservoir (Longtou Reservoir) by water diversion tunnel, and its tail water goes to Tongxi river. On the downstream of Longtou Reservoir with three existing Yungang I, II and III hydropower plants with capacity of 9.12MW. after its implementation, Yungang I hydropower plant with capacity of 5MW stops running and the electricity generated by the existing hydropower plants drops to 3,580MWh.

It is estimated that the feed-in electricity to the East China Power Grid is 54,180MWh. After deducting the electricity loss of three existing plants, the net electricity generated is 31,692MWh.

The project has been well accepted by previously authorized participants: Asian Development Bank as Trustee of the Future Carbon Fund, Swedish Energy Agency and Kingdom of Spain.

Contribution of the project activity to sustainable development

The contributions of project activity towards sustainable development are explained with indicators like contributions to social, economic, environmental, and technological well-being aspects as follows:

Contribution to Social Wellbeing:

• The project generates 16 more jobs in Chun’an County after employing the staff being affected in the existing plants and improves economic activities by strengthening the local grid with ways of improvement of electricity quality, frequency and its availability.
• The recent two years (2022 and 2023) and thereafter, the project owner has donated 30,000 RMB annually to the local She minority community for their development of the economy in poverty alleviation in Chun’an County.

Contribution to Economic Wellbeing:

• The project creates direct and indirect job opportunities for the local She minority community including the female and poor families.
• The project improves the efficiency of utilizing the water resources, improves the local economy from the selling the electricity and CERs, thus increase the taxation for local government, the electricity supplied by the project ease the pressure of power shortage in Zhejiang Province (one of the most developed coastal provincial economies in China).

Contribution to Environmental Wellbeing:

• The project displaces part of the electricity from coal-fired power plants in fossil fuel dominated East China Power Grid, thus reduce the air pollution caused by coal burning.

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