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Ruacana Power Station

Namibia

The 1716th largest power station in the world

330 MW · Capacity

The Ruacana Hydroelectric Power Station is a hydroelectric power plant across the Kunene River near Ruacana in northwest Namibia, close to the Angolan border. Commissioned in 1978, it is by far the largest power station in Namibia. Its operator is NamPower, the Namibian national electric power utility company.

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

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