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Üç-Korgon Hydroelectric Power Station

Nooken District, Kyrgyzstan

The 2141st largest power station in the world

180 MW · Capacity

The Üch-Korgon Hydro Power Plant (Kyrgyz) is an active hydroelectric plant on the river Naryn in Shamaldy-Say, Kyrgyzstan, upstream from Uchqoʻrgʻon in Uzbekistan. Completed in 1962, it is the oldest of the three hydroelectric plants on the river Naryn near Tash-Kömür, 25 km downstream from the Shamaldy-Say Hydroelectric Power Station. It has 4 individual turbines with a nominal output of around 45 MW and a total nominal capacity of 180 MW. The power plant's dam is 34 m (112 ft) tall and it creates a 53,000,000 m3 (42, 968 acre⋅ft) reservoir of which20,000,000 m3 (16, 214 acre⋅ft) is active (or useful) for power generation.

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