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Edolo Pumped Storage Plant

Edolo, Italy

The 953rd largest power station in the world

950 MW · Capacity

The Edolo Pumped Storage Plant is located along the Oglio River just downstream of Edolo, Brescia Province in the Lombardy region of Italy. Using the pumped-storage hydroelectric method, it has an installed capacity of 1,000 megawatts (1, 300, 000 hp). Its generators were commissioned between April 1984 and November 1985. Lake Avio was previously completed in 1929 and Lake Benedetto completed in 1940.

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

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