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O Chum 2 Hydropower Dam

The 928th tallest dam in the world

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O Chum 2 Hydropower Dam is located on O Chum River, in Banlung, Ratanakiri Province, Cambodia. O Chum 2, commissioned in 1993, is a 1 MW mini-hydropower plant located in the north-east of Ratanakiri province. It is owned and operated by the Cambodian government and has an estimated annual generation output of between 2.2 and 2.5 GWh. The dam has the following characteristics: installed capacity 1 megawatt (1, 300 hp) 51 gigawatt-hours (180 TJ) annually seasonal storage hydropower head 32.6 metres (107 ft) height 10 metres (33 ft) length 3,107 metres (10, 194 ft) active storage 0.1 million cubic metres (3.5×10^6 cu ft) catchment area 45 square kilometres (17 sq mi).

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

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