Üch-Korgon Hydro Power Plant | |
Name Official: | Учкурганская ГЭC |
Coordinates: | 41.1878°N 72.1606°W |
Location: | Shamaldy-Say |
Status: | O |
Th Fuel Primary: | Hydropower |
Ps Units Operational: | 4 |
Ps Electrical Capacity: | 180 MW |
Commissioned: | 1962 |
The Üch-Korgon Hydro Power Plant (Kirghiz; Kyrgyz: Үч-Коргон ГЭСи, Russian: Уч-Курганская ГЭС) is an active hydroelectric plant on the river Naryn in Shamaldy-Say, Kyrgyzstan, upstream from Uchqoʻrgʻon in Uzbekistan. Completed in 1962, it is the oldest of the three hydroelectric plants on the river Naryn near Tash-Kömür, 25 km downstream from the Shamaldy-Say Hydroelectric Power Station.[1] It has 4 individual turbines with a nominal output of around 45 MW and a total nominal capacity of 180 MW.[1] The power plant's dam is 340NaN0 tall and it creates a 530000000NaN0 reservoir of which200000000NaN0 is active (or useful) for power generation.[2]