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Hydroelectric Power Production

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The world's primary regions for producing hydroelectricity at dammed river power plants

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The map shows the distribution of some of the world’s major hydroelectric dams and power-generating stations. In North America, these facilities are found in Canada in British Columbia, Ontario, Quebec, and Labrador. In the United States, they are on major rivers in the Pacific Northwest (for example, the Columbia River), Arizona and Utah (on the Colorado River), and in the Northeast in New York (on the Niagara River between United States and Canada) and New England. In South America, dams generate hydro power in Venezuela, Colombia, Brazil (particularly on the Paraná River and its tributaries), and in Argentina on the Rio de la Plata and on rivers that flow from the Andes mountains. In Europe, major hydroelectric facilities are found in Portugal, Norway, France, Switzerland, Ukraine (on the Dnieper River), and in Russia (on the Volga and on rivers in Siberia, which is in Asia). In Africa, these facilities have been constructed on the Nile River in Egypt, Sudan, and Ethiopia and between Zambia and Zimbabwe on the Zambesi River. In Southwest Asia, hydroelectric dams generate power on the Euphrates River in Turkey, the Tigris in Iraq, and Iran’s Zagros Mountains. In Central Asia, Tajikistan has a hydroelectric dam. In South Asia, dams have been constructed on rivers in northern Pakistan; in India on rivers in Kashmir in the north as well as in several places in central and southern India; and in Bhutan. In Southeast Asia, these facilities are found in Laos and Vietnam and in Indonesia on the islands of Java and Borneo. In East Asia, southwestern and central China have numerous hydroelectric dams, and there are also a few in northern China. Japan has a major hydroelectric dam between Tokyo and Osaka. The map does not show any hydropower production for Oceania.

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Bad Creek Hydroelectric Power Plant SC USA

Bath County Pumped Storage Hydroelecric Power Plant VA USA

Beauharnois Hydroelectric Power Plant Canada

Bersimis-1 Hydroelectric Power Plant Canada

Blenheim Gilboa Pumped Storage Hydroelectric Power Plant NY USA

Bonneville Hydro Power Plant OR USA

Boundary Dam Hydro Power Plant WA USA

Castaic Pumped Storage Hydroelectric Power Plant CA USA

Chief Joseph Hydro Power Plant WA USA

Churchill Falls Hydroelectric Generating Station Canada

G M Shrum (W.A.C. Bennett) Hydroelectric Power Plant Canada

Glen Canyon Dam Hydro Power Plant AZ USA

Grand Coulee Hydro Power Plant WA USA

Helms Pumped Storage Hydroelectric Power Plant CA USA

Hoover Dam Hydro Power Plant AZ/NV USA

John Day Hydro Power Plant OR USA

Kettle Rapids Hydroelectric generating Station Canada

La Grande-1 Hydroelectric Generating Station Canada

La Grande-2-A Hydroelectric Generating Station Canada

La grande-3 Hydroelectric Generating Station Canada

La grande-4 Hydroelectric Generating Station Canada

Limestone Hydroelectric Generating Station Canada

Long Spruce Hydroelectric Geneerating Station Canada

Ludington Hydro Power Plant MI USA

Manic-2 (Jean-Lesage) Hydroelectric Generating Station Canada

Manic-3 (Rene-Levesque) Hydroelectric Generating Station Canada

Manic-5 Hydroelectric Generating Station Canada

Manic-5-PA Hydroelectric generating Station Canada

Mica Creek Hydroelectric Power Plant Canada

Muddy Run Pumped Storage Hydro Power Plant PA USA

Northfield Mountain Pumped Storage Hydro Power Plant MA USA

Outardes-3 Hydroelectric Power Plant Canada

R.H. Saunders Hydroelectric Power Plant Canada

Raccoon Mountain Pumped Storage Hydro Power Plant TN USA

Revelstoke Hydroelectric Power Plant Canada

Robert Moses Niagara Hydro Power Plant NY USA

Robert-Bourassa Hydroelectric Generating Station Canada

Rocky Mountain Pumped Storage Hydro Hydro Power Plant GA USA

Rocky Reach Hydro Power Plant WA USA

Sir Adam Beck II Hydroelectric Generating Station Canada

The Dalles Hydro Power Plant OR USA

Toktogul Hydroelectric Power Plant Kyrgyzstan

Wanapum Hydro Power Plant WA USA

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Alaska
0.263%0.281%82.1%11.6%
Arizona
1123.6%2.88%10.7%39.0%0.733%5.07%
Utah
0.588%61.0%7.26%6.12%
Yukon
98.1%1.84%
Northwest Territories
0.348%72.6%0.290%
District of Columbia
100%
Florida
4.03%1.55%91.4%
Idaho
2.91%30.2%3.27%54.9%1.18%
New Hampshire
76.3%23.7%
Rhode Island
13.3%69.7%
Vermont
99.7%0.255%
Washington
1111115.04%1.86%1.11%24.0%43.6%
Wyoming
7.26%46.3%0.567%32.4%12.0%
Nunavut
11.8%17.3%
Montana
57.3%38.2%1.27%
Maine
93.3%6.03%
North Dakota
10.1%1.48%86.6%
Kentucky
92.1%7.93%
Nova Scotia
75.7%
Virginia
180.5%3.31%4.25%9.08%
Delaware
86.7%10.3%
Prince Edward Island
89.3%
Saskatchewan
0.467%36.8%57.3%
Mississippi
99.8%
West Virginia
29.5%25.5%4.76%
Nebraska
17.7%79.4%2.90%
Texas
2.54%13.8%23.0%60.1%
Missouri
26.4%72.3%
Louisiana
97.6%
Hawaii
6.90%5.68%2.83%0.523%
North Carolina
91.1%3.09%0.441%
Oregon
116.51%31.0%31.1%15.4%5.08%
New Brunswick
97.3%
Alabama
100%
New Mexico
0.730%68.2%0.895%2.27%0.265%0.661%14.3%0.207%
Kansas
22.6%9.98%67.4%
Wisconsin
21.4%78.5%
British Columbia
1110.184%0.977%0.593%0.282%40.5%47.6%
Newfoundland and Labrador
113.1%63.7%9.22%
New Jersey
24.0%56.9%17.8%
South Carolina
199.3%0.150%
Michigan
116.9%83.0%0.172%
Alberta
3.24%63.2%13.0%
Connecticut
151.3%48.4%
Pennsylvania
10.122%52.0%44.8%
Colorado
56.3%2.11%28.6%8.17%0.521%
Nevada
8.09%6.39%39.1%0.125%1.34%0.631%
Massachusetts
11.16%78.7%
Georgia
199.6%0.332%
New York
1112.68%93.4%
Maryland
29.2%31.9%5.56%
Québec
1111111111110.104%20.2%62.1%14.6%
Manitoba
11133.0%66.8%
Oklahoma
9.80%90.2%
Tennessee
198.2%1.29%0.470%
Ontario
10.290%53.6%42.8%
California
1119.3%2.56%1.48%0.371%49.0%7.52%
Arkansas
100%
South Dakota
41.0%41.2%15.3%
Ohio
3.59%81.0%15.0%
Indiana
6.32%92.9%0.816%
Minnesota
15.1%84.4%
Iowa
96.5%0.309%
Illinois
6.99%89.9%1.23%
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