Nizhegorodskaya HPP is a 531 MW hydro power station in Nizjnij Novgorod, Russia. It is operated by PJSC "RusHydro". Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 532k homes (estimated). It ranks #148 of 678 Russia power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 1948, it is around 78 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 WRI1003759.
Known, modelled and calculated values are kept separate. Missing fields are shown as unavailable.
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capacity: GEM tracker 2026 operating-unit sum (location L100000603259); fuel: WRI source-record fuel
At 531 MW, Nizhegorodskaya HPP is well above the median hydro plant in Russia (72 MW). Technically it is described as conventional storage. 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 "RusHydro". All plants by this company →
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 56.7°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 #21 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 56.6506, 43.3756 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
Nizhegorodskaya HPP is a 531 MW source-record hydro power plant in Nizjnij Novgorod, Russia, commissioned in 1948.
Its output is enough to supply roughly 531,606 homes (estimated).
Nizhegorodskaya HPP is operated by PJSC "RusHydro".
