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Byreyskaya HPP

Hydro power plant in Amur, Russia. Approximate location 50.27, 130.3136.

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Byreyskaya HPP is a 2,010 MW hydro power station in Amur, Russia. It is operated by PJSC "RusHydro". Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 2,012,297 homes (estimated). It ranks #27 of 545 Russia power plants by installed capacity. As a non-combustion source, it has no direct CO₂ emissions from generation. In context, hydro supplies about 16.7% of Russia's electricity; the national grid averages 450 gCO₂/kWh (35.7% low-carbon) (2025).

2,010MW installed capacity
2,012,297homes powered (est.)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id WRI1003675.

Capacity vs largest hydro plants in Russia

Krasnoyarsk: 6,000 MW6kKrasnoyarskBratsk HPP: 4,500 MW4kBratsk HPPUst Illminsk (HPP): 3,840 MW4kUst Illmin…Boguchanskaya HPP: 2,997 MW3kBoguchansk…Volzhskaya HPP: 2,671 MW3kVolzhskaya…Zhigulevskaya HPP: 2,467 MW2kZhigulevsk…Byreyskaya HPP: 2,010 MW2kByreyskaya…Dagestan Branch: 1,786 MW2kDagestan B…

Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).

Owner

Operated by PJSC "RusHydro". All plants by this company →

Climate zone & how it works

This hydro plant converts the energy of falling or flowing water through hydro turbines. It sits in a monsoon warm-summer continental climate (Köppen Dwb) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 50.3°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

~6°Ctypical annual mean
~21°Ctypical warm-season mean
Monsoon warm-summer continental: four distinct seasons — cold winters and warm summers

Climate zone & typical temperatures: Köppen-Geiger world climate classification (Kottek et al. 2006, 0.5° grid).

How it compares & nearby plants

The #7 largest hydro power plant of 105 in Russia by capacity.

Russia has 105 hydro power plants in this dataset, together about 45,591 MW of capacity.

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Location

Coordinates 50.27, 130.3136 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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