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Älvkarleby Hydroelectric Power Station

Älvkarleby Municipality, Sweden

The 2414th largest power station in the world

125 MW · Capacity

Älvkarleby Hydroelectric Power Plant (Swedish: Älvkarleby kraftverk) is a hydroelectric power plant with 5 Francis turbines at Älvkarleby, Sweden. It was built in 1911. From 1988 to 1991 a new power plant with a single Francis turbine was added, increasing its generation power from 70 MW to 126 MW. The national energy utility, the Vattenfall, produces 45% of Sweden's hydroelectric power at the Älvkarleby plant and almost 60 others.

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

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