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Barra Grande Hydroelectric Power Plant

Celso Ramos, Brazil

The 1183rd largest power station in the world

690 MW · Capacity

The Barra Grande Hydroelectric Power Plant is a dam and hydroelectric power plant on the Pelotas River near Celso Ramos on the border of Santa Catarina and Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. The power station has a 708 MW capacity and is supplied with water by a concrete face rock-fill embankment dam, the second tallest dam in Brazil. It is owned and operated by Energética Barra Grande SA (BAESA) and produces a 30% equivalent of the demand in Santa Catarina.

Power station data from Wikidata (CC0). Summary from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

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