Hydro Plants
28 power stations
Three Gorges Dam
The worlds largest power station, 22,500 MW across the Yangtze River at Sandouping....
Itaipu Dam
14,000 MW binational hydroelectric dam on the Parana River between Brazil and Paraguay....
Baihetan Dam
16,000 MW hydropower station on the Jinsha River, the second largest power station on Earth....
Xiluodu Dam
13,860 MW arch dam on the Jinsha River, among the tallest dams of its type....
Wudongde Dam
10,200 MW station on the Jinsha River upstream of Baihetan....
Xiangjiaba Dam
6,448 MW gravity dam on the Jinsha River feeding East China grids....
Gezhouba Dam
2,715 MW run of river dam, the first barrier on the Yangtze mainstem....
Hoover Dam
2,080 MW Art Deco arch gravity dam taming the Colorado River since 1936....
Grand Coulee Dam
6,809 MW Columbia River dam, the largest power plant in the United States....
Robert-Bourassa Dam
5,616 MW underground powerhouse on the La Grande River in Quebec....
Churchill Falls
5,428 MW plant harnessing the Churchill River in Labrador....
Guri Dam
10,235 MW dam on the Caroni River supplying most Venezuelan electricity....
Tucurui Dam
8,370 MW dam on the Tocantins River in the Amazon....
Sayano-Shushenskaya
6,400 MW dam on the Yenisei, site of the 2009 turbine disaster....
Krasnoyarsk Dam
6,000 MW dam on the Yenisei River completed in 1972....
Bratsk Dam
4,500 MW Angara River dam that held the world largest title in its day....
Aswan High Dam
2,100 MW dam on the Nile creating Lake Nasser, the engine of modern Egypt....
Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam
5,150 MW Blue Nile dam, the largest power project in Africa....
Kariba Dam
About 2,100 MW shared hydro plant on the Zambezi backing both national grids....
Akosombo Dam
1,020 MW dam on the Volta River that industrialized Ghana power....
Nathpa Jhakri
1,500 MW run of river project on the Sutlej, the largest hydro plant in India....
Tehri Dam
1,000 MW project behind Indias tallest dam, a 260 m rockfill on the Bhagirathi....
Tarbela Dam
About 4,900 MW Indus River dam, the largest earth and rockfill dam in the world when finished in 1976....
Belo Monte Dam
11,233 MW run of river complex on the Xingu River in Para, the largest hydro plant wholly in Brazil....
Nurek Dam
Roughly 3,000 MW station behind a 300 m earthfill dam on the Vakhsh River....
Ataturk Dam
2,400 MW rockfill dam on the Euphrates, the centerpiece of the Southeastern Anatolia Project....
Kakhovka Dam
Soviet era hydroelectric station on the lower Dnieper, destroyed in June 2023....
Glen Canyon Dam
1,320 MW concrete arch dam on the Colorado River forming Lake Powell....