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Ohau A

Canterbury Region, New Zealand

The 1879th largest power station in the world

266 MW · Capacity

Ōhau A is a hydroelectric power station in the Mackenzie Basin, Canterbury, New Zealand. Operated by Meridian Energy, it is one of the three Ōhau stations in the Upper Waitaki hydro scheme. The station is located at the end of the man-made Pūkaki canal, where water from Lake Pūkaki joins flows from the Ōhau canal before passing through the station into Lake Ruataniwha.

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

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