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Kruonis Pumped Storage Hydroelectric Power Plant Lithuania

Hydro power plant in Lithuania, Lithuania. Approximate location 54.799, 24.2475.

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Kruonis Pumped Storage Hydroelectric Power Plant Lithuania is a 900 MW hydro power station in Lithuania, Lithuania. Based on reported annual generation of 560 GWh, it can supply roughly 159,885 homes. It ranks #2 of 6 Lithuania power plants by installed capacity. As a non-combustion source, it has no direct CO₂ emissions from generation. In context, hydro supplies about 3.9% of Lithuania's electricity; the national grid averages 138 gCO₂/kWh (77.6% low-carbon) (2025).

900MW installed capacity
560GWh reported / yr
159,885homes powered

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id GEODB0042161.

Reported generation trend

2016: 575 GWh20162017: 560 GWh2017575 GWh

Annual generation (GWh), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).

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 54.8°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

6.3°Cannual mean temp
4,253heating degree-days (base 18°C)
0cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
102 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: -5 °CJF: -4 °CFM: 0 °CMA: 6 °CAM: 12 °CMJ: 16 °CJJ: 17 °CJA: 16 °CAS: 12 °CSO: 7 °CON: 2 °CND: -2 °CD17 °C

Heating degree-days here run 73% 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: 87/100 — 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 #1 largest hydro power plant of 2 in Lithuania by capacity.

Lithuania has 2 hydro power plants in this dataset, together about 1,001 MW of capacity.

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Location

Coordinates 54.799, 24.2475 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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