ary plans exist for the construction of the next largest hydroelectric power station with an installed capacity of 39,000 MW.3 The Project is called Grand Inga and is planned to be realised on the lower Congo River.4
Another proposal, Penzhin Tidal Power Plant, presumes an installed capacity up to 87,100 MW.
The largest hydroelectric power stations top the list of the largest power stations of any kind, are among the largest hydraulic structures and are some of the largest artificial structures in the world.
This table lists currently operational power stations with an installed capacity of at least 2,000 MW. Some of these may have additional units under construction, but only current installed capacity is listed.
|Rank||Name||Country||River||Installed Capacity (MW)||Annual electricity production (TW-hour)5||Years of completion||Area flooded (km²)|
|1||Three Gorges Dam||People's Republic of China||Yangtze||22,500||98.52||2003/2012 6||632|
|2||Itaipu Dam||Brazil Paraguay||Paraná||14,000||98.31||1984/1991, 20037||1,350|
|5||Grand Coulee||United States||Columbia||6,809||208||1942/1950, 1973, 1975/1980, 1984/19859||324|
|6||Longtan Dam||People's Republic of China||Hongshui||6,426||18.710||2007/2009|
|11||Laxiwa Dam||People's Republic of China||Yellow||4,20014||10.2||2010|
|12||Xiaowan Dam||People's Republic of China||Mekong||4,200 15||19||2010||190|
|16||Ilha Solteira Dam||Brazil||Paraná||3,444||17.9||1973|
|17||Ertan Dam||People's Republic of China||Yalong||3,300||17||1999|
|17||Pubugou Dam||People's Republic of China||Dadu||3,300||14.6||2009/2010|
|20||Xingó Dam||Brazil||São Francisco||3,162||18.718||1994/1997|
|21||Yacyretá||Argentina Paraguay||Paraná||3,100||20.09||1994/1998, 2011||1,600|
|22||Nurek Dam||Tajikistan||Vakhsh||3,015||11.2||1972/1979, 1988||98|
|23||Bath County PSP||United States||-||3,003||3.32||1985, 2004|
|24||Goupitan Dam||People's Republic of China||Wu||3,000 19||9.67||2009/2011||94|
|25||W. A. C. Bennett Dam||Canada||Peace River||2,876||13.1||1968, 2012|
|26||La Grande-4||Canada||La Grande||2,77912||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
- Development of the Grand Inga, retrieved 2010-03-21
- "Africa plans biggest dam project, the Grand