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Changlongshan hydroelectric plant
Changlongshan Pumped Storage Power Station (长龙山抽水蓄能电站) is a 2,100 MW pumped-storage plant in Anji County, Zhejiang, China, built by China Three Gorges Corporation and fully operational since 2022.
Cheboksary Hydroelectric Station
The Cheboksary Hydroelectric Station (Чебоксарская ГЭС) is a 1,370 MW hydroelectric dam at Novocheboksarysk on the Volga River in Chuvashia, Russia, the last step of the Volga cascade.
CHESF
CHESF (Companhia Hidro Elétrica do São Francisco) is a Brazilian electric power generation and transmission company serving the Northeast, created by the federal government in 1945 as Brazil's first public power company.
Chief Joseph Dam
Chief Joseph Dam is a hydroelectric dam on the Columbia River in Washington State, operated by the US Army Corps of Engineers with 2,611 megawatts of capacity.
Chimay hydroelectric plant
The Chimay hydroelectric plant is a 152 MW hydroelectric station on the Río Tulumayo in Junín, Peru, opened in 2000 and owned by Chinango S.A.C.
China Three Gorges Corporation
China Three Gorges Corporation (中国长江三峡集团) is a Chinese state-owned energy company founded in 1993 to build the Three Gorges Project, and describes itself as the world's largest hydropower enterprise.
Chivor hydroelectric plant
The Chivor hydroelectric plant (Central Hidroeléctrica de Chivor) is a 1,000 MW power station on the Batá River in Boyacá, Colombia, owned by AES Colombia.
Churchill Falls Generating Station
Churchill Falls Generating Station is an underground hydroelectric plant on the Churchill River in Labrador, Canada, completed in 1974 with a capacity of 5,428 MW, second largest in Canada.
Coca Codo Sinclair Dam
Coca Codo Sinclair is a 1,500 MW run-of-river hydroelectric plant on the Coca River in Ecuador, inaugurated in 2016 as the country's largest power station.
Compagnie nationale du Rhône
The Compagnie nationale du Rhône (CNR) is a French joint-stock company created in 1933 to develop the Rhône river from Switzerland to the Mediterranean through hydroelectricity, navigation, and irrigation.
Companhia Energética de São Paulo
Companhia Energética de São Paulo (CESP) is a Brazilian electricity generation company owned by the Auren Energia group, founded by São Paulo state in 1966 and privatized in 2018.
Conowingo Dam
Conowingo Dam, completed in 1928, is a hydroelectric dam on the lower Susquehanna River in northern Maryland between Cecil and Harford counties, producing up to 572 megawatts.
Cortes La Muela I hydroelectric plant
Cortes La Muela I is an underground pumped-storage hydroelectric plant on the Júcar river in Valencia, Spain, pumping water about 500 meters up to a plateau reservoir for peak demand.
Cross-flow turbine
The cross-flow turbine, also known as the Banki or Ossberger turbine, is an impulse turbine used mainly in small hydropower plants with low to medium heads.
Cruachan Power Station
Cruachan Power Station, known as the Hollow Mountain, is a 440 MW underground pumped storage hydroelectric plant at Loch Awe in Scotland, opened in 1965.
Dachaoshan Dam
The Dachaoshan Dam (大朝山水电站) is a 1,350 MW hydropower station on the Lancang River in Yunnan, China, downstream of the Manwan Dam, with its first generator connected in December 2001.
Dadu River
The Dadu River (大渡河) is a large river in southwestern China and the largest tributary of the Minjiang River, joining it at Leshan in Sichuan.
Dagangshan Dam
The Dagangshan Dam (大岗山水电站) is a 210-meter concrete arch dam with a 2,600 MW hydroelectric station on the Dadu River in Sichuan, China, completed in 2017.
Darius-type tubular turbine
The Darius-type tubular turbine, also spelled Darrieus, is a low-head water turbine with a vertical-axis Darrieus runner in a ducted passage, proposed at Kyushu University for extra-low-head sites.
Datengxia hydroelectric plant
Datengxia hydroelectric plant (大藤峡, Datengxia Water Conservancy Project) is a multipurpose dam on the Qianjiang River in Guiping, Guangxi, China, with 1,600 MW capacity, built from 2014 to 2023.
Dibang Multipurpose hydroelectric plant
The Dibang Multipurpose Project is a 2,880 MW hydroelectric and flood-moderation scheme on the Dibang river in Arunachal Pradesh, India, planned around India's highest dam and due in 2032.
Dinorwig Power Station
Dinorwig Power Station, also known as Electric Mountain, is a pumped-storage hydroelectric plant hidden inside Elidir Fawr mountain near Llanberis, Wales, opened in 1984 and capable of reaching full power, 1,800 MW, in under a minute.
Dona Francisca Hydroelectric Power Plant
The Dona Francisca Hydroelectric Power Plant (Usina Hidrelétrica Dona Francisca) is a 125 MW hydroelectric plant on the Jacuí River in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.
Draft tube
A draft tube is the conduit carrying water from the runner of a reaction turbine, such as a Francis or Kaplan, down to the tailrace, recovering kinetic energy.
Dunhua hydroelectric plant
The Dunhua hydroelectric plant (敦化抽水蓄能电站) is a 1,400 MW pumped storage plant in Dunhua, Jilin, China, with four 350 MW reversible units that was fully commissioned in April 2022.
El Cajón Dam (Mexico)
El Cajón Dam, also known as the Francisco Morazán hydroelectric plant, is a 750 MW dam on the Santiago River in Nayarit, Mexico, built by CFE in 2007.
El Chocón Dam
El Chocón Dam (Presa El Chocón) is an earthfill dam and 1,200 MW hydroelectric plant on the Limay River in northern Patagonia, Argentina, opened in 1972.
El Hierro hydro-wind plant
The El Hierro hydro-wind plant, operated by Gorona del Viento, is a wind-pumped-hydro power station commissioned in 2014 that supplies roughly half of the Canary Island of El Hierro's electricity.
Emborcação hydroelectric plant
The Emborcação hydroelectric plant, officially Usina Hidrelétrica Theodomiro Carneiro Santiago, is a 1,192 MW dam on the Paranaíba River in Minas Gerais, Brazil, operated by Cemig since 1982.
Ertan hydroelectric plant
The Ertan hydroelectric plant (雅砻江二滩水电站) is a 3,300 MW hydroelectric station on the Yalong River in Sichuan, China, once the country's largest before Three Gorges.