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Kambar-Ata-2 Hydroelectric Power Station

The 928th tallest dam in the world

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The Kambar-Ata-2 Hydro Power Plant (Kyrgyz: --2, 2) is a hydroelectric power station on the river Naryn near Kara-Jygach, Toktogul District, Kyrgyzstan. When completed, it will have 3 individual Francis turbine-generators with a nominal output of around 120 MW each, with a combined generation capacity of 360 MW electricity. The first generator was operational on November 27, 2010. The power plant's dam is 60 m (197 ft) tall and it creates a 70,000,000 m3 (56, 750 acre⋅ft) reservoir of which 8,000,000 m3 (6, 486 acre⋅ft) is active (or useful) for power generation.

Dam data from Wikidata (CC0) plus curated additions. Summary from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

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