Kakhovka Hydroelectric Power Plant | dam, generating station, hydroelectric power station/plant

 dam, generating station, hydroelectric power station/plant

Kakhovka Hydroelectric Power Station is the sixth (lower and last) stage of cascade of the power stations of the Dnipro river hydroelectric power stations in Ukraine.
It locates in Nova Kakhovka city in the Kherson Oblast (region) of Ukraine.

The dam has an associated lock and a power station with an installed capacity of 357 MW.
Water from Kakhovka Reservoir is cooling the 5.7 GW Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant, and also sent via the North Crimean Canal and Dnieper–Kryvyi Rih Canal to irrigate large areas of southern Ukraine and northern Crimea.

Construction on the dam began in September 1950.
The last generator was commissioned in October 1956.
It is operated by Ukrhydroenergo.

Operator: Ukrhydroenergo
Commission date: 1955–1956
Turbines: 3x58.5, 3x60.5 MW propeller
Installed capacity: 357 MW
Annual generation: 1.4 TWh

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