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The Three Gorges Dam in Hubei, China, has the world's largest instantaneous generating capacity (22,500 MW), with the Itaipu Dam in Brazil/Paraguay in second place (14,000 MW). Despite large differences in installed capacity of these two power stations, during the course of an entire year they generate equal amounts of electrical energy - Itaipu 98.2 TWh in 2012 and Three Gorges 98.1 TWh in 2012, because the Three Gorges experiences six months per year when there is very little water available to generate power, while the Paraná River that feeds the Itaipu has a much lower seasonal variance in flow. In the same time, due to no-stable of feeds, a power output of The Three Gorges expects up to 125 TWh in some years. The Three Gorges (22,500 MW - 32 × 700 MW and 2 × 50 MW) is operated jointly with the much smaller Gezhouba Dam (2,715 MW), the total generating capacity of this two-dam complex is 25,215 MW. The Itaipu on the Brazil-Paraguay border has 20 generator units with overall 14,000 MW of installed capacity, however the maximum number of generating units allowed to operate simultaneously cannot exceed 18 (12,600 MW).
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Rank,Name,Country,River,Installed Capacity (MW),Annual electricity production (TW-hour),Years of completion,Area flooded (km)1,Three Gorges Dam,People's Republic of China,Yangtze,"22,500",98.5,2003/2012,6322,Itaipu Dam,Brazil Paraguay,Paran,"14,000",98.3,"1984/1991, 2003","1,350"3,Guri,Venezuela,Caron,"8,850",53.41,"1978, 1986","4,250"4,Tucuru,Brazil,Tocantins,"8,370",41.43,1984,"3,014"5,Grand Coulee,United States,Columbia,"6,809",20,"1942/1950, 1973, 1975/1980, 1984/1985",3246,Longtan Dam,People's Republic of China,Hongshui,"6,426",18.7,2007/2009,7,Krasnoyarsk,Russia,Yenisei,"6,000",20.4,1972,"2,000"8,Robert-Bourassa,Canada,La Grande,"5,616",26.5,1979/1981,"2,835"9,Churchill Falls,Canada,Churchill,"5,428",35,1971/1974,"6,988"10,Bratsk,Russia,Angara,"4,500",22.6,1967,"5,470"11,Laxiwa Dam,People's Republic of China,Yellow,"4,200",10.2,2010,12,Xiaowan Dam,People's Republic of China,Mekong,"4,200",19,2010,19013,SayanoShushenskaya,Russia,Yenisei,"3,840",26.8,"1985/1989, 2010/2014",62114,Ust Ilimskaya,Russia,Angara,"3,840",21.7,1980,15,Tarbela Dam,Pakistan,Indus,"3,478",13,1976,25016,Ilha Solteira Dam,Brazil,Paran,"3,444",17.9,1973,17,Ertan Dam,People's Republic of China,Yalong,"3,300",17,1999,17,Pubugou Dam,People's Republic of China,Dadu,"3,300",14.6,2009/2010,19,Macagua,Venezuela,Caron,"3,167.50",15.2,"1961, 1996",4720,Xing Dam,Brazil,So Francisco,"3,162",18.7,1994/1997,21,Yacyret,Argentina Paraguay,Paran,"3,100",20.09,"1994/1998, 2011","1,600"22,Nurek Dam,Tajikistan,Vakhsh,"3,015",11.2,"1972/1979, 1988",9823,Bath County PSP,United States,-,"3,003",3.32,"1985, 2004",24,Goupitan Dam,People's Republic of China,Wu,"3,000",9.67,2009/2011,9425,W. A. C. Bennett Dam,Canada,Peace River,"2,876",13.1,"1968, 2012",26,La Grande-4,Canada,La Grande,"2,779",,1986,76527,Gezhouba Dam,People's Republic of China,Yangtze,"2,715",17.01,1988,28,Manic-5 and Manic-5-PA,Canada,Manicouagan,"2,656",,"1970/1971, 1989/1990","1,950"29,Chief Joseph Dam,United States,Columbia,"2,620",12.5,1958/73/79,3430,Volzhskaya (Volgogradskaya),Russia,Volga,"2,582.50",10.43,1961,31,Niagara Falls (US),United States,Niagara,"2,525",,1961,32,Revelstoke Dam,Canada,Columbia,"2,480",,"1984, 2011",11533,Paulo Afonso IV,Brazil,So Francisco,"2,462.40",,1979/1983,34,Chicoasn (Manuel M. Torres) Dam,Mexico,Grijalva,"2,430",,"1980, 2005",35,La Grande-3,Canada,La Grande,"2,418",,1984,36,Atatrk Dam,Turkey,Euphrates,"2,400",8.9,1990,36,Jinanqiao Dam,People's Republic of China,Jinsha,"2,400",,2010,36,S?n La Dam,Vietnam,Black,"2,400",10.25,2010/2012,36,Bakun Dam,Malaysia,Balui,"2,400",,2011,36,Liyuan Dam,People's Republic of China,Jinsha,"2,400",,2012,36,Guandi Dam,People's Republic of China,Yalong,"2,400",,2013,42,Zhiguliovskaya (Samarskaya),Russia,Volga,"2,335",8.8,1957,44,Karun III Dam,Iran,Karun,"2,280",4.17,2005,44,Iron Gates-I,Romania Serbia,Danube,"2,192",11.3,1970,45,Caruachi,Venezuela,Caron,"2,160",12.95,2006,45,John Day Dam,United States,Columbia,"2,160",,1949,47,La Grande-2-A,Canada,La Grande,"2,106",,1992,48,Aswan,Egypt,Nile,"2,100",11,1970,49,Itumbiara,Brazil,Paranaba,"2,082",,1980,50,Hoover Dam,United States,Colorado River,"2,080",4,"1936/1939, 1961",51,Cleuson-Dixence Complex,Switzerland,-,"2,069",4.51,"1965, 1998",52,Cahora Bassa,Mozambique,Zambezi,"2,025",,1975/1977,53,Bureya Dam,Russia,Bureya,"2,010",5.07,2009,54,Lijiaxia Dam,People's Republic of China,Yellow,"2,000",,1997/2000,54,Karun I (Shahid Abbaspour) Dam,Iran,Karun,"2,000",,"1976, 1995, 2006",54,Masjed Soleyman Dam,Iran,Karun,"2,000",3.7,2002/2007,,,,,,,,For other more formats kindly visit : www.downloadexcelfiles.com,,,,,,,,,,,,,,Original source : en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_hydroelectric_power_stations,,,,,,,