Niva GES-3 is a 156 MW hydro power station in Murmansk, Russia. It is operated by PJSC "TGC-1". Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 156k homes (estimated). It ranks #341 of 678 Russia power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 1949, it is around 77 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 WRI1061651.
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capacity: GEM tracker 2026 (location L100000603258); fuel: WRI source-record fuel
At 156 MW, Niva GES-3 is well above the median hydro plant in Russia (72 MW). Technically it is described as run-of-river. 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 "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 67.2°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 #36 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 67.2203, 32.4383 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
Niva GES-3 is a 156 MW source-record hydro power plant in Murmansk, Russia, commissioned in 1949.
Its output is enough to supply roughly 155,677 homes (estimated).
Niva GES-3 is operated by PJSC "TGC-1".
