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Middle Dnieper Hydroelectric Power Plant

Middle Dnieper Hydroelectric Power Plant
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Middle Dnieper Hydroelectric Power Plant is located in Ukraine
Middle Dnieper Hydroelectric Power Plant
Location of Middle Dnieper Hydroelectric Power Plant in Ukraine
Official name Середньодніпровська ГЕС
Location Kamianske, Ukraine
Coordinates 48°32′52.80″N 34°32′28.67″E / 48.5480000°N 34.5412972°E / 48.5480000; 34.5412972Coordinates: 48°32′52.80″N 34°32′28.67″E / 48.5480000°N 34.5412972°E / 48.5480000; 34.5412972
Purpose Power, navigation
Status Operational
Construction began 1956
Opening date 1963; 55 years ago (1963)
Owner(s) Energy Company of Ukraine
Dam and spillways
Type of dam Earth-fill embankment with gravity sections
Impounds Dnieper River
Height 15.5 m (51 ft)
Length 7,490 m (24,570 ft)
Reservoir
Creates Kamianske Reservoir
Total capacity 2,450,000,000 m3 (1,986,247 acre⋅ft)
Surface area 567 km2 (219 sq mi)
Power Station
Operator(s) Ukrhydroenerho
Commission date 1963-1964
Turbines 8 x 44 MW propeller
Installed capacity 352 MW
Annual generation 1.4 TWh

The Middle Dnieper Hydroelectric Station is a run-of-river power plant on the Dnieper River in Kamianske, Ukraine. (On 19 May 2016 the Ukrainian parliament voted to rename the city of Dniprodzerzhynsk into Kamianske to comply with decommunization laws.) The primary purpose of the dam is hydroelectric power generation and navigation. It is the fourth dam in the Dnieper cascade. The dam has an associated lock and a power station with an installed capacity of 352 MW. Construction on the dam began in 1956 and the last generator was commissioned in 1964. It is operated by Ukrhydroenerho.


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