Location Vyshhorod, Ukraine Status Operational Phone +380 4596 22009 Owner Energy Company of Ukraine | Purpose Power, navigation Impounds Dnieper River Create Kiev Reservoir | |
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Opening date 1964; 53 years ago (1964) Type of dam Earth-fill embankment with gravity sections Address Р69, Vyshhorod, Kyivs'ka oblast, Ukraine, 07301 Similar Kiev Pumped Storage P, Dniester Hydroelectric Station, Kremenchuk Hydroelectric Power Pl, Dniester Pumped Storage P, Tashlyk Pumped Storage P | ||
Kiev Hydroelectric Station is a run-of-river power plant on the Dnieper River in Vyshhorod, Ukraine. The 288 m (945 ft) long dam creates the Kiev Reservoir with the purpose of hydroelectric power generation and navigability with the dam's associated lock. The first of 20 generators in the power station was commissioned in 1964, the last in 1968. Together with the Kiev Pumped Storage Power Station, it creates a hydroelectricity generating complex. It is operated by the Ukrhydroeneho that is part of the state company Energy Company of Ukraine. Turbines for the plant were produced by the Kharkiv Factory "Turboatom", generators - Kharkiv Factory "Elektrovazhmash".
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