World’s Largest Electric-Power Plants
April 29, 2008 – 12:00 am
No. 1 - Itaipu
14,750 MW
Brazil/Paraguay
No 2 - Three Gorges
12,070 MW
China
No 3 - Raul Leoni (Guri)
10,055 MW
Venezuela
No 4 - Kashiwazaki-Kariwa
8,206 MW
Japan
No 5 - Bruce
6,830 MW
Canada
No 6 - Sayanao-Shushenskaya
6,500 MW
Russia
Photograph courtesy of Sayanao-Shushenskaya GES
No 7 - Grand Coulee
6,495 MW
USA
Photograph courtesy of US Bureau of Reclamation
No 8 - Krasnoyarsk 6,000 MW
Russia
Photograph by Alexander Kuptsova
No 9 - Zaporizhzhya
6,000 MW
Ukraine
Photograph courtesy of Energoatom
No 10 - Ulchin
5,900 MW
Republic of Korea
Photograph courtesy of Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power Corp
No 11 - Yonggwang
5,900 MW
Republic of Korea
Photograph courtesy of Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power Corp
No 12 - Taichung
5,834 MW
Taiwan
Photograph courtesy of Taiwan Power Co
America’s Largest Solar-Power Plant
Photographs courtesy of, respectively:
Itaipu Binacional
General Electric
EDELCA
Tokyo Electric Power Co Ltd
British Energy
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