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Kakhovka

Hydro power plant in Kherson, Ukraine. Approximate location 46.7786, 33.3697.

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Kakhovka is a 343 MW hydro power station in Kherson, Ukraine. It is operated by Dnipro-SHEM PJSC. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 343,392 homes (estimated). It ranks #29 of 64 Ukraine power plants by installed capacity. As a non-combustion source, it has no direct CO₂ emissions from generation. In context, hydro supplies about 9.9% of Ukraine's electricity; the national grid averages 250 gCO₂/kWh (72.2% low-carbon) (2022).

343MW installed capacity
343,392homes powered (est.)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id WRI1005118.

Capacity vs largest hydro plants in Ukraine

Dneipro HPP 2: 1,538 MW2kDneipro HP…Dniester: 702 MW702DniesterDniester (pumped storage): 648 MW648Dniester (…Kremenchug: 625 MW625KremenchugKaniv: 528 MW528KanivKiev: 440 MW440KievDniprodzerzhynsk: 357 MW357Dniprodzer…Kakhovka: 343 MW343Kakhovka

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

Owner

Operated by Dnipro-SHEM PJSC. All plants by this company →

Local climate & thermal context

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 46.8°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

9.7°Cannual mean temp
3,269heating degree-days (base 18°C)
280cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
25 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: -2 °CJF: -2 °CFM: 3 °CMA: 10 °CAM: 16 °CMJ: 20 °CJJ: 22 °CJA: 21 °CAS: 16 °CSO: 10 °CON: 4 °CND: 0 °CD22 °C

Heating degree-days here run 33% above the median power plant in this dataset — a proxy for how much extra energy heated equipment must replace through its surfaces in winter.

Climate heat-demand index: 70/100 — this site sits in the top third of the power plants we cover by heating degree-days.

In colder climates, uninsulated hot equipment (boilers, turbines, valves, steam lines) loses proportionally more heat to ambient air — exactly the loss Inzonex modular insulation is designed to cut.

Climate normals: WorldClim 2.1 (1970–2000 monthly normals, 10 arc-min, CC BY 4.0); zone: Köppen-Geiger world climate classification (Kottek et al. 2006, 0.5° grid). Degree-days & heat-demand index computed by PowerAtlas — a modelled heat-demand proxy, not a measured site figure.

How it compares & nearby plants

The #8 largest hydro power plant of 10 in Ukraine by capacity.

Ukraine has 10 hydro power plants in this dataset, together about 5,729 MW of capacity.

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Location

Coordinates 46.7786, 33.3697 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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