The Vau i Dejës Hydroelectric Power Station is a
hydroelectric
Hydroelectricity, or hydroelectric power, is Electricity generation, electricity generated from hydropower (water power). Hydropower supplies 15% of the world's electricity, almost 4,210 TWh in 2023, which is more than all other Renewable energ ...
dam on the
Drin River
The Drin (; or ; ) is a river in Southeastern Europe with two major tributaries – the White Drin and the Black Drin and two distributary, distributaries – one discharging into the Adriatic Sea, in the Gulf of Drin and the other into the ...
, in
Albania
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, near the settlement of
Vau i Dejës. Completed in 1973, the project consists of five
turbines
A turbine ( or ) (from the Greek , ''tyrbē'', or Latin ''turbo'', meaning vortex) is a rotary mechanical device that extracts energy from a fluid flow and converts it into useful work. The work produced can be used for generating electrical ...
of
Chinese origin, each with a nominal capacity of , totaling the installed capacity to .
Vau i Dejës Hydro Power Plant
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The Vau i Dejës power station is the third of three dams of the Drin River cascade, with the power stations of Fierza and the Koman upstream.
In 1967, China agreed to finance the station.
See also
* List of power stations in Albania
References
Hydroelectric power stations in Albania
Dams completed in 1973
Buildings and structures in Vau i Dejës
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