article_snippet: Ensuring electricity is safely transported across the massive power lines to the rest of the country is no easy task and certainly not one for the faint-hearted.
article_snippet: the famed Three Gorges Dam generated an incredible 85 terawatt-hours (TWh) of power last year - enought to power the whole of the UK for about five months - and project managers expect even more to be produced this year.
article_snippet: The electricity pylons in the region that extend across rivers and valleys and transport hydroelectric power are part of the backbone of the central Chinese power grid system, which supplies both the north and south of the country.