Gelbakh HEPP is a 44 MW hydro power plant in Dagestan, Russia. It is operated by PJSC "RusHydro". Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 44k homes (estimated). It ranks #476 of 678 Russia power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 2006, it is around 20 years old — relatively modern. 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 WRI1061677.
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The capacity and/or fuel fields on this page include a source-backed provenance label from GEM, an official registry, Wikidata, OSM, or a cross-source match.
capacity: GEM tracker 2026 (location L100001054818); fuel: WRI source-record fuel
At 44 MW, Gelbakh HEPP is below the median hydro plant in Russia (72 MW). Technically it is described as conventional storage. Hydropower converts the energy of falling or flowing water into electricity; output depends on rainfall and reservoir level, and large dams also provide grid balancing and storage.
Capacity comparison computed from the WRI Global Power Plant Database; fuel-type context is general engineering background.
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 humid subtropical climate (Köppen Cfa) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 43.2°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 #65 largest hydro power plant of 105 in Russia by capacity.
Russia has 105 hydro power plants in this dataset, together about 45,810 MW of capacity.
Coordinates 43.1541, 46.8521 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
Gelbakh HEPP is a 44 MW source-record hydro power plant in Dagestan, Russia, commissioned in 2006.
Its output is enough to supply roughly 44,050 homes (estimated).
Gelbakh HEPP is operated by PJSC "RusHydro".
