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Hydro power plants in Japan

55 hydro power plants in Japan, totalling 27,749 MW of installed capacity — ranked by size, from open data.

#PlantRegionMW
1OkutataragiKyoto1,932
2OkuminoGifu1,500
3OkawachiHyogo1,280
4Shin TakasegawaNagano1,280
5OkuyoshinoWakayama1,206
6MatanogawaTottori1,200
7OmarugawaMiyazaki1,200
8TamaharaGunma1,200
9Shin ToyoneShizuoka1,125
10ImaichiTochigi1,050
11OkukiyotsuNiigata1,000
12ShimogoFukushima1,000
13ShiobaraTochigi900
14KazunogawaYamanashi800
15Okuyahagi DainiGifu780
16NumapparaTochigi675
17AzumiNagano623
18NabaraHiroshima620
19HongawaEhime615
20TenzanSaga Prefecture600
21OkutadamiNiigata560
22OhiraKumamoto500
23KannagawaNagano470
24KisenyamaKyoto466
25Daini NumazawaFukushima460
26TagokuraNiigata400
27IkeharaMie350
28SakumaShizuoka350
29Shin NariwagawaOkayama303
30Mazegawa DaiichiGifu288
31Tedorigawa DaiichiIshikawa250
32MidonoNagano245
33YagisawaNiigata240
34NaganoFukui220
35MiboroGifu215
36NiikappuHokkaido200
37TakamiHokkaido200
38OtoriNiigata182
39ShinanogawaNiigata181
40HitotsuseMiyazaki180
41JozankeiHokkaido120
42Hatanagi No.2Shizuoka86
43YokoyamaGifu70
44Mazegawa No.2Gifu66
45TadamiNiigata65
46IkawaShizuoka62
47Yahagi No.1Gifu61
48OshirakawaFukui59
49TakisatoHokkaido57
50HoheikoHokkaido52
51UryuChiba51
52OkuniikappuHokkaido44
53TokachiHokkaido40
54TomuraHokkaido40
55NokananHokkaido30

WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).

Lifecycle and source reconciliation

This page contains 55 positive-capacity records totalling 27,749 MW. Lifecycle labels, capacity scope and capacity-quality provenance are kept separate so a source-backed capacity is not mistaken for a verified operating status.

49records with a resolvable source link
6records without a retained record-level link

Lifecycle labels in this page slice

StatusRecords
Not Reported1
Operating54

Capacity provenance quality

Quality labelRecords
current source verified gem operating units 20263
legacy source record not current verified6
source verified gem tracker location 202645
source verified wikidata p2109 strict match1

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