7912||1986||765|
|27||Gezhouba Dam||People's Republic of China||Yangtze||2,715||17.01||1988|
|28||Manic-5 and Manic-5-PA||Canada||Manicouagan||2,65620||1970/1971, 1989/1990||1,950|
|29||Chief Joseph Dam||United States||Columbia||2,620||12.5||1958/73/79||34|
|31||Niagara Falls (US)||United States||Niagara||2,525 22||1961|
|32||Revelstoke Dam||Canada||Columbia||2,480||1984, 2011||115|
|33||Paulo Afonso IV||Brazil||São Francisco||2,462.423||1979/1983|
|34||Chicoasén (Manuel M. Torres) Dam||Mexico||Grijalva||2,430||1980, 2005|
|35||La Grande-3||Canada||La Grande||2,41812||1984|
|36||Jinanqiao Dam||People's Republic of China||Jinsha||2,400||2010|
|36||Sơn La Dam||Vietnam||Black||2,400||10.25||2010/2012|
|36||Liyuan Dam||People's Republic of China||Jinsha||2,400||2012|
|36||Guandi Dam||People's Republic of China||Yalong||2,400||2013|
|44||Karun III Dam||Iran||Karun||2,280||4.17||2005|
|44||Iron Gates-I||Romania Serbia||Danube||2,192||11.3||1970|
|45||John Day Dam||United States||Columbia||2,160||1949|
|47||La Grande-2-A||Canada||La Grande||2,1061224||1992|
|50||Hoover Dam||United States||Colorado River||2,080||4||1936/1939, 1961|
|51||Cleuson-Dixence Complex||Switzerland||-||2,069||4.51||1965, 1998|
|54||Lijiaxia Dam||People's Republic of China||Yellow||2,000||1997/2000|
|54||Karun I (Shahid Abbaspour) Dam||Iran||Karun||2,000||1976, 1995, 2006|
|54||Masjed Soleyman Dam||Iran||Karun||2,000||3.7||2002/2007|
This table lists stations under construction with expected installed capacity at least 2,000 MW.
|Name||Country||River||Expected capacity (MW)||Expected completion||Location|
|Boguchany Dam||Russia||Angara River||3,00025||2013|
|Ethiopian Renaissance||Ethiopia||Blue Nile||6,000||2018|
- List of conventional hydroelectric power stations
- List of pumped-storage hydroelectric power stations
- List of largest power stations in the world
- List of tallest dams in the world
- List of largest dams
- Itaipu Binacional: Energy
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- Generating capacity is not the only factor determining the amount of electricity generated, as this also depends on consistent utilization of the plant's capacity. Factors enhancing this are the free capacity of the reservoir and the consistency of water supply during and across years.
- first 6 units installed in 2003, last 3 in 2012
- first unit installed in 1984, 18th in 1991; in 2003 2 additional units were installed
- "Generation Records Fall at Grand Coulee Dam". U.S. Bureau of Reclamation. Archived from the original on 2006-10-07. Retrieved 2006-11-18.
- first unit installed in 1942, 21st in 1991; 6 units in third powerplant were installed between 1975 and 1980, 3 units of pumped-storage plant were installed in 1973, 3 more units in 1983 and 1984
- Combined with adjacent La Grande-2-A the LG-2 complex has 7,722 MW of installed capacity
- Hydro-Québec (April 2009). Powering Our Future : Annual Report 2008 (pdf). Montreal. p. 125. ISBN 978-2-550-55046-4.
- power plat is being reconstructed after catastrophic failure in 2009 and may reach original 6,400 MW capacity in 2014
- 10 units were installed between 1985 and 1989, after 2009 failure new units are being installed since 2010
- ELETROBRAS 2011 Form 20-F
- Hydro-Québec (2010), Hydroelectric Generating Stations, Montreal: Hydro-Québec, retrieved 2010-08-16
- Combined US-CA capacity >= 1.6 MW greater than this so would be about 10th place.
- Combined with adjacent Paulo Afonso IV, Paulo Afonso I, II, III and Apollonius Sales the Paulo Afonso Hydroelectric Complex has 4,279 MW of installed capacity
- Combined with Robert-Bourassa, it would place LG-2 complex in 5th place
- 1,332 MW already installed
- 1,200 MW already installed
- 770 MW already installed