Once completed it will be the third largest hydropower project in the world.
Perhaps the best known example is the Three Gorges Project, the largest hydropower station in the world, which is only a few hundred miles west of Nanchang on the Yangtze River.
The SLT dam is the largest of five proposed hydropower projects on the Tapajós.
The region around Three Gorges Dam in China, the largest hydropower project in the world, is coping with a severe drought that has closed part of the Yangtze River to shipping, according to the state-run China Daily newspaper.
With a capacity of 40,000 megawatts, the scheme would be the world's largest hydropower project.
China's Three Gorges Dam is the world's largest hydropower project and was completed in 2008.
In this paper, we use the Three Gorges Project (TGP), which is the world's largest hydropower project, as a case study to find the patterns of scientific research on specific large-scale infrastructure projects.
The study, published by The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, predicts that extensive deforestation will leave less water in the rivers to generate hydropower from projects like Belo Monte, which is under construction on the Xingu River in Brazil and will be the world's third largest hydropower complex.
They researchers looked closely at Brazil's highly controversial Belo Monte dam, said to be the world's third largest hydropower project.
Under construction nearby is a large hydropower plant that will take advantage of the head between the two rivers and light the city of Vidalia.
