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Sihwa Lake Tidal Power Station

Siheung, South Korea

The 1907th largest power station in the world

254 MW · Capacity

Sihwa Lake Tidal Power Station is the world's largest tidal power installation, with a total power output capacity of 254 MW. When completed in 2011, it surpassed France's 240 MW Rance Tidal Power Station, which was the world's largest for 45 years. It is operated by the Korea Water Resources Corporation.

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

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