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Zagorsk Pumped Storage Station

Sergiyev Posad, Russia

The 738th largest power station in the world

1.2 GW · Capacity

Zagorsk Pumped Storage Station (́ ́ ́) is a pumped-storage hydroelectric power station near Sergiev Posad, Russia. Zagorsk-1 has a 1,200 megawatts (1, 600, 000 hp) installed capacity and was Russia's first power plant of that type. The project was approved in 1974, the first two generators operational in 1987 and the rest by 2000. Zagorsk-2 with a future installed capacity of 840 MW is currently being constructed adjacent to it.

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

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