Chirkey HPP is a 1,000 MW hydro power station in Dagestan, Russia. It is operated by PJSC "RusHydro". Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 1,001,142 homes (estimated). It ranks #63 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).
Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id WRI1061672.
Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).
Operated by PJSC "RusHydro". All plants by this company →
This hydro plant converts the energy of falling or flowing water through hydro turbines. It sits in a warm-summer humid continental climate (Köppen Dfb) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 43.0°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.
Climate zone & typical temperatures: Köppen-Geiger world climate classification (Kottek et al. 2006, 0.5° grid).
The #15 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.
Coordinates 42.9772, 46.8708 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
