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Nizhnekamsk Hydroelectric Station

Komsomolsky District, Russia

The 736th largest power station in the world

1.21 GW · Capacity

The Nizhnekamsk Hydroelectric Station, also known as Lower Kama, is a dam and hydroelectric power station on the lower Kama River near Naberezhnye Chelny in Russia. The purpose of the dam is power production, navigation and water supply. It powers a 1,248-megawatt (MW) station with 16 x 78 MW Kaplan turbine-generators. Work on the dam began in 1963 and was not completed until 1990. Work on the reservoir still continues to help maintain it.

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

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