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Liptovska Mara Pumped Storage Hydroelectric Power Plant Slovakia

Hydro power plant in Zilinsky, Slovakia. Approximate location 49.0986, 19.4889.

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Liptovska Mara Pumped Storage Hydroelectric Power Plant Slovakia is a 198 MW hydro power station in Zilinsky, Slovakia. Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 198,226 homes (estimated). It ranks #9 of 30 Slovakia power plants by installed capacity. As a non-combustion source, it has no direct CO₂ emissions from generation. In context, hydro supplies about 10.9% of Slovakia's electricity; the national grid averages 95 gCO₂/kWh (85.2% low-carbon) (2025).

198MW installed capacity
198,226homes powered (est.)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id GEODB0042636.

Capacity vs largest hydro plants in Slovakia

Cierny Vah Pumped Storage Hydroelectric Power Plant Slovakia: 735 MW735Cierny Vah…Gabcikovo Hydroelectric Power Plant Slovakia: 720 MW720Gabcikovo …Liptovska Mara Pumped Storage Hydroelectric Power Plant Slovakia: 198 MW198Liptovska …Miskova Hydroelectric Power Plant Slovakia: 94 MW94Miskova Hy…Nosice Hydroelectric Power Plant Slovakia: 68 MW68Nosice Hyd…Ruzin Pumped Storage Hydroelectric Power plant Slovakia: 60 MW60Ruzin Pump…Povazska Bystrica Hydroelectric Power Plant Slovakia: 55 MW55Povazska B…Kralova Hydroelectric Power Plant Slovakia: 45 MW45Kralova Hy…

Installed capacity (MW), 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 49.1°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

5.9°Cannual mean temp
4,414heating degree-days (base 18°C)
0cooling degree-days (base 18°C)
723 melevation

Monthly mean temperature

J: -4 °CJF: -3 °CFM: 1 °CMA: 6 °CAM: 11 °CMJ: 14 °CJJ: 15 °CJA: 15 °CAS: 11 °CSO: 6 °CON: 1 °CND: -3 °CD15 °C

Heating degree-days here run 80% 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: 89/100 — 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 #3 largest hydro power plant of 21 in Slovakia by capacity.

Slovakia has 21 hydro power plants in this dataset, together about 2,321 MW of capacity.

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Location

Coordinates 49.0986, 19.4889 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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