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Capanda Dam

Malanje Province, Angola

The 1401st largest power station in the world

520 MW · Capacity

The Capanda Dam is a hydroelectric dam on the Kwanza River in Malanje Province, Angola. Built in 1987–2007 by the Russian company Tekhnopromexport, general designer - the institute Hydroproject (Chief Engineer - Ph.D Fedosov V.E) The facility generates power by utilizing four turbines and 130 megawatts (170, 000 hp) each, totalling the installed capacity to 520 megawatts (700, 000 hp). Total cost of US$4 billion. An additional cost of more than US$400 million was spent in repairing the damage caused during UNITA's occupation of the area at the time of the Angolan Civil War in 1992 and 1999.

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