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Trängslet Dam

Älvdalen Municipality, Sweden

The 1716th largest power station in the world

330 MW · Capacity

The Trängslet Dam is a rock-filled embankment dam on the Dal River near the town of Trängslet in Dalarna, Sweden. At 125 m (410 ft) in height, it is the tallest dam in the country. Its reservoir, with a capacity of 880,000,000 m3 (710, 000 acre⋅ft), is also the largest artificial lake in Sweden. The dam was constructed between 1955 and 1960. Its hydroelectric power station has an installed capacity of 330 MW. It is owned by Fortum.

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

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