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Hydroelectric power station Community Coordinates Type Capacity Year completed or completion expected River Boali I Hydropower Station: Boali: Run of river
Three Gorges Dam (left), Gezhouba Dam (right) This article provides a list of the largest hydroelectric power stations by generating capacity. Only plants with capacity larger than 3,000 MW are listed. The Three Gorges Dam in Hubei, China, has the world's largest
Hydropower is now used principally for hydroelectric power generation, and is also applied as one half of an energy storage system known as pumped-storage hydroelectricity. Hydropower is an attractive alternative to fossil fuels as it does not directly produce carbon dioxide or other atmospheric pollutants and it provides a relatively ...
The upper reservoir of the Markersbach PSPS Dam of Siah Bishe Pumped Storage Power Plant The Tumut-3 Hydroelectric Power Station The upper Minamiaiki Dam of the Kannagawa Hydropower Plant Castaic Power Plant Main pump-generator hall of Vianden Pumped Storage Plant Upper reservoir for Coo-Trois-Ponts PSPS Goldisthal Pumped Storage Station Mingtan Dam
The following page lists hydroelectric power stations that generate power using the run-of-the-river method. This list includes most power stations that are larger than 100 MW in maximum net capacity, which are currently operational or under construction.
The Bujagali Power Station is a hydroelectric power station across the Victoria Nile that harnesses the energy of its namesake, the Bujagali Falls, in Uganda.Construction began in 2007 and concluded in 2012.
South Africa has indicated willingness to buy 2.5 GW of the dam's output. Nigeria is interested in buying 3 GW and the Congolese mines in Katanga Province are interested in 1.3 GW. [ 8 ] On January 2025, according to the BBC, it was reported that Chinese state-owned firm the Three Gorges Corporation has backed out of the project.
The Gilgel Gibe III Dam is 610 m-long (2,000 ft) and 243 m (797 ft) high roller-compacted concrete dam. It withholds a reservoir with a capacity of 14.7 km 3 (3.5 cu mi) and a surface area of 210 km 2 (81 sq mi), collecting with a catchment area of 34,150 km 2 (13,190 sq mi).