Volkhov HEPP is a 84 MW hydro power plant in Leningrad, Russia. It is operated by PJSC "TGC-1". Based on its capacity (estimated), it can supply roughly 84k homes (estimated). It ranks #412 of 678 Russia power plants by installed capacity. Commissioned in 1926, it is around 100 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 WRI1061638.
Known, modelled and calculated values are kept separate. Missing fields are shown as unavailable.
The capacity and/or fuel fields on this page include a source-backed provenance label from GEM, an official registry, Wikidata, OSM, or a cross-source match.
capacity: GEM tracker 2026 operating-unit sum (location L100000603290); fuel: WRI source-record fuel
At 84 MW, Volkhov HEPP is well above the median hydro plant in Russia (72 MW). Technically it is described as unknown. 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 warm-summer humid continental climate (Köppen Dfb) — Northern Hemisphere, latitude 59.9°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 #49 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 59.9117, 32.3433 from WRI Global Power Plant Database (CC BY 4.0). View on OpenStreetMap.
Volkhov HEPP is a 84 MW source-record hydro power plant in Leningrad, Russia, commissioned in 1926.
Its output is enough to supply roughly 84,096 homes (estimated).
Volkhov HEPP is operated by PJSC "TGC-1".
