Hydro power plant in Karachayevo-Cherkesiya, Russia. Approximate location 44.2269, 42.3436.
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The hydroelectric power station of the Cascade of Kuban hydroelectric power stations is a 16 MW hydro power plant in Karachayevo-Cherkesiya, Russia. It is operated by PJSC "RusHydro". Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 16k homes (estimated). It ranks #567 of 678 Russia power plants by installed capacity. 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 WRI1061695.
Known, modelled and calculated values are kept separate. Missing fields are shown as unavailable.
The capacity and fuel fields on this page are source-record values from the upstream open dataset. They are useful for identification and ranking, but they have not been upgraded to a 2026 registry/GEM-location verified value.
capacity: WRI Global Power Plant Database source-record (legacy); fuel: WRI source-record fuel
At 16 MW, The hydroelectric power station of the Cascade of Kuban hydroelectric power stations is below the median hydro plant in Russia (72 MW). 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 44.2°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 #88 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 44.2269, 42.3436 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
The hydroelectric power station of the Cascade of Kuban hydroelectric power stations is a 16 MW source-record hydro power plant in Karachayevo-Cherkesiya, Russia.
Its output is enough to supply roughly 15,918 homes (estimated).
The hydroelectric power station of the Cascade of Kuban hydroelectric power stations is operated by PJSC "RusHydro".
