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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
0.230%527.6%0.108%0.153%
Arizona
1119819.5%80.5%
Utah
1880.663%99.3%
Yukon
488.3%11.6%0.107%
Northwest Territories
152.2%7.85%4.66%
District of Columbia
100%
Florida
0.528%98.8%
Idaho
102100%
New Hampshire
100%
Rhode Island
4.64%94.9%
Vermont
100%
Washington
1111110.523%270.121%
Wyoming
100%
Nunavut
0.349%18.72%0.383%0.977%
Montana
96100%
Maine
0.133%10.167%
North Dakota
100%
Kentucky
6100%
Nova Scotia
0.869%418.3%
Virginia
10.126%199.7%
Delaware
0.762%99.2%
Prince Edward Island
1.45%94.3%
Saskatchewan
12.5%87.5%
Mississippi
100%
West Virginia
100%
Nebraska
100%
Texas
0.183%299.8%
Missouri
17100%
Louisiana
0.120%0.147%
Hawaii
2.11%0.444%1.11%0.206%0.177%1.57%1.39%
North Carolina
0.319%299.4%
Oregon
112199.9%
New Brunswick
0.522%599.2%
Alabama
99.9%
New Mexico
49100%
Kansas
100%
Wisconsin
100%
British Columbia
1110.181%663.0%0.157%
Newfoundland and Labrador
10.356%134.1%14.7%24.7%
New Jersey
0.329%99.1%
South Carolina
199.8%
Michigan
1100%
Alberta
55.4%0.298%
Connecticut
199.9%
Pennsylvania
1100%
Colorado
356100%
Nevada
26100%
Massachusetts
11.78%40.557%
Georgia
199.9%
New York
1110.105%22.63%
Maryland
0.874%98.1%
Québec
1111111111110.107%24.9%34.9%0.469%
Manitoba
11114.25%66.4%
Oklahoma
100%
Tennessee
12100%
Ontario
1749.9%50.0%
California
110.105%4599.7%
Arkansas
2100%
South Dakota
2100%
Ohio
100%
Indiana
100%
Minnesota
100%
Iowa
100%
Illinois
5100%
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