Laos delivers 600m kWh of hydropower to China’s Greater Bay Area via cross-border energy export channel
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Hydropower generated in Laos has for the first time been transmitted to China's Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (GBA) through the China-Laos 500-kilovolt (kV) interconnection project, marking a new milestone in cross-border clean energy cooperation between the two countries, according to Guangzhou Daily reports on Thursday.
The power delivery, which began on Thursday, is expected to continue through the end of October with a total transmission volume of approximately 600 million kilowatt-hours (kWh), according to the China Southern Power Grid Co.
According to the report, the imported electricity is being traded simultaneously through the southern regional electricity market, marking a continued strengthening of mutual power support capacity between the two countries, and a further improvement in the optimized allocation of cross-regional clean energy resources.
The latest hydropower transmission to the GBA shows that the project is now capable of channeling multiple forms of clean electricity to different parts of China, improving the flexibility and reach of power trade across borders, the grid operator said.
In 2026, the total market-based trading volume of solar and hydropower transmitted through the China-Laos 500-kV channel is projected to reach 1.5 billion kWh. Southern Power Grid said it will continue to expand the scale and scope of cross-border electricity trading, leveraging synergies between the China-Laos interconnection and China's west-to-east power transmission program to promote complementary energy advantages.
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