Niva GES-1 is a 26 MW hydro power plant in Murmansk, Russia. It is operated by PJSC "TGC-1". Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 26,029 homes (estimated). It ranks #384 of 545 Russia power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 1952, it is around 74 years old — an older, legacy facility. 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 WRI1061649.
Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).
Operated by PJSC "TGC-1". All plants by this company →
This hydro plant converts the energy of falling or flowing water through hydro turbines. It sits in a subarctic (boreal) climate (Köppen Dfc) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 67.4°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 #78 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 67.3812, 32.5273 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
