Kyiv Hydroelectric Power Plant

Kyiv Hydroelectric Station
View of station from Vyshhorod
Location of Kyiv Hydroelectric Station in Ukraine
LocationVyshhorod, Ukraine
Coordinates50°35′18.02″N 30°30′44.36″E / 50.5883389°N 30.5123222°E / 50.5883389; 30.5123222
PurposePower, navigation
StatusOperational
Opening date1964 (1964)
Dam and spillways
Type of damEarth-fill embankment with gravity sections
ImpoundsDnieper River
Length288 m (945 ft)
Spillway capacity12,500 m3/s (441,433 cu ft/s)
Reservoir
CreatesKyiv Reservoir
Total capacity3,780×10^6 m3 (3,064,496 acre⋅ft)
Surface area922 km2 (356 sq mi)
Power Station
Operator(s)Ukrhydroenergo
Commission date1964-1968
Hydraulic head12 m (39 ft)
Turbines20; 4 x 22.7 MW, 16 x 20.5 MW bulb turbine
Installed capacity418.8 MW
Annual generation683 GWh

Kyiv Hydroelectric Power Plant (Ukrainian: Київська ГЕС, romanized: Kyivska HES, lit.'Kyiv Hydroelectric Station') is a run-of-river power plant on the Dnieper River in Vyshhorod, Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine. The 288 m (945 ft) long dam creates the Kyiv Reservoir with the purpose of hydroelectric power generation and navigability with the dam's associated lock. The first of 20 generators in the power station was commissioned in 1964, and the last in 1968. Together with the Kyiv Pumped Storage Power Plant, it creates a hydroelectricity generating complex. It is operated by the Ukrhydroenergo. Turbines for the plant were produced by the Kharkiv Factory Turboatom, and generators by the Kharkiv Factory "Elektrovazhmash".