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Yedisu Dam

Turkey

The 3207th largest power station in the world

22.7 MW · Capacity

The Yedisu Dam is an earth-fill embankment dam on the Peri River (a tributary of the Euphrates), in Kiğı district of Bingöl Province, Turkey. Its primary purpose is hydroelectric power generation and is the second dam in the Peri River cascade. Construction on the dam began in 2009 and its power station was commissioned in 2011. The entire project was inaugurated in 2012. It is owned and operated by Özaltın Energy.

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

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