Workers at the world’s largest hydroelectric plant show they have a head for heights as they get to work. But these brave employees at the great Three Gorges Dam insist their job is nothing out of the ordinary, although there is the heart-stopping scenery below them.
Making sure electricity is safely transported across the tall power lines to the rest of the country is no easy task. These brave workers cross high above giant rivers, regularly working at more than 650 feet in the air when they work. Ho Ku, 39, is one of the brave workers who do the job - and insists it’s just another day in the office when he gets started. He said: “I know it looks pretty impressive but to be honest you don’t really think about it when you’re up there. It’s just a job like any other.”
The dam that was built across the Yangtze River in the Chinese city of Zhongxiang produced an incredible 85 terawatt-hours of power last year - enough to power the whole of the UK for about five months - and project managers expect even more to be produced this year.
The local power company has a small army of technicians responsible for the maintenance of more than 300 electricity pylons that carry power from the dam and supply local requirements. The company does annual checks looking for problems every year, typically in spring when staff require a total of 10 days to visit each of the huge pylons and check the cables.
A company spokesman said in that time a total of 338 five-hundred-kilovolt pylons will be serviced. The electricity pylons in the region that run across rivers and valleys and transport hydroelectric power are part of the backbone of the central Chinese power system, which supplies both the north and south of the country.
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