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The largest hydroelectric power station is the Three Gorges Dam in China, rated at 22,500 MW in total installed capacity. After passing on 7 December 2007 the 14,000 MW mark of the Itaipu Dam , the facility was ranked as the largest power-generating facility ever built.
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 instantaneous generating capacity at 22,500 MW of
Hydroelectric power stations continued to become larger throughout the 20th century. Hydropower was referred to as "white coal". [19] Hoover Dam's initial 1,345 MW power station was the world's largest hydroelectric power station in 1936; it was eclipsed by the 6,809 MW Grand Coulee Dam in 1942. [20]
Inside the Robert-Bourassa generating station, in northern Quebec, the world's largest underground power station, with an installed capacity of 5,616 MW.. An underground power station is a type of hydroelectric power station constructed by excavating the major components (e.g. machine hall, penstocks, and tailrace) from rock, rather than the more common surface-based construction methods.
The following are lists of hydroelectric power stations based on the four methods of hydroelectric generation: List of conventional hydroelectric power stations, hydroelectric generation through conventional dams; List of pumped-storage hydroelectric power stations, hydroelectric generation through pumped-storage
The Hoover Dam in Arizona and Nevada was the first hydroelectric power station in the United States to have a capacity of at least 1,000 MW upon completion in 1936. Since then numerous other hydroelectric power stations have surpassed the 1,000 MW threshold, most often through the expansion of existing hydroelectric facilities.
Operational since May 1886, second in the world Turgi Power Station [2] 1: Turgi: Operational Verzasca Hydroelectric Power Station: 105: Tenero-Contra: Operational Wettingen Power Station [8] 26: Wettingen
Station Location Coordinates Type Capacity Year commissioned Owner Cobre Power Plant [3] Punta Rincon, Donoso, Colón-Coal-fired power station: 300 MW: 2019: First Quantum Minerals [3] AES Colón I Cativa, Colón, Colón-Bunker Oil: 72 MW: 2015: AES Panama S.A. AES Colón II Colón, Colón, Colón-Gas: 381 MW: 2018: AES Panama S.A.