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Itá Hydroelectric Power Plant

Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

The 586th largest power station in the world

1.45 GW · Capacity

The Itá Hydroelectric Power Plant is a dam and hydroelectric power plant on the Uruguay River near Itá on the border of Santa Catarina and Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. The power station has a 1,450-megawatt (1, 940, 000 hp) capacity and is supplied with water by a concrete face rock-fill embankment dam. It is owned and operated by Tractebel Energia and produces the equivalent of 60% of the energy consumed in Santa Catarina.

Power station data from Wikidata (CC0). Summary from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

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