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Nizhnetulomskaya HPP

Hydro power plant in Murmansk, Russia. Approximate location 68.8217, 32.8192.

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Nizhnetulomskaya HPP is a 53 MW hydro power plant in Murmansk, Russia. It is operated by PJSC "TGC-1". Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 52,760 homes (estimated). It ranks #333 of 545 Russia power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 1937, it is around 89 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).

53MW installed capacity
52,760homes powered (est.)
1937commissioned (~89 yrs)

Plant data: WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0), id WRI1061664.

Capacity vs largest hydro plants in Russia

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Installed capacity (MW), WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0).

Owner

Operated by PJSC "TGC-1". All plants by this company →

Climate zone & how it works

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 68.8°N — which shapes how much energy it can produce and how its output varies through the year.

~0°Ctypical annual mean
~14°Ctypical warm-season mean
Subarctic (boreal): very cold for most of the year

Climate zone & typical temperatures: Köppen-Geiger world climate classification (Kottek et al. 2006, 0.5° grid).

How it compares & nearby plants

The #59 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.

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Location

Coordinates 68.8217, 32.8192 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.

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