Kyiv Hydroelectric Power Plant

Kyiv Hydroelectric Station
Kyiv Hydroelectric Station
	View of station from Vyshhorod
	Location of Kyiv Hydroelectric Station in Ukraine
Location	Vyshhorod, Ukraine
Coordinates	50°35′18.02″N 30°30′44.36″E / 50.5883389°N 30.5123222°E
Purpose	Power, navigation
Status	Operational
Opening date	1964; 61 years ago
Dam and spillways
Type of dam	Earth-fill embankment with gravity sections
Impounds	Dnieper River
Length	288 m (945 ft)
Spillway capacity	12,500 m3/s (441,433 cu ft/s)
Reservoir
Creates	Kyiv Reservoir
Total capacity	3,780×106 m3 (3,064,496 acre⋅ft)
Surface area	922 km2 (356 sq mi)
Power Station
Operator(s)	Ukrhydroenergo
Commission date	1964-1968
Hydraulic head	12 m (39 ft)
Turbines	20; 4 x 22.7 MW, 16 x 20.5 MW bulb turbine
Installed capacity	418.8 MW
Annual generation	683 GWh

Kyiv Hydroelectric Station (Ukrainian: Київська ГЕС, romanized: Kyivska HES) 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".

Russo-Ukrainian War

On 24 February 2022, during the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Andrii Nikonchuk died defending the Kyiv Hydroelectric Power Plant from Russian air raids.^[2] On 26 August 2024, an energy facility of the complex was damaged in a Russian attack. Throughout the war, concerns have been raised over the effects of flooding caused by a possible dam collapse on the Kyiv area in case of an attack.^[3]