Kislaya Guba Tidal Power Station

The Kislaya Guba Tidal Power Station is an experimental project in Kislaya Guba, Russia.

Kislaya Guba Tidal Power Station
Country	Russia
Location	Kislaya Guba
Coordinates	69°22′37″N 33°04′33″E
Status	Operational
Commission date	1968
Owner(s)	RusHydro
Operator(s)	RusHydro
Tidal power station
Type	Tidal barrage
Power generation
Units operational	1 × 0.2 MW 1 × 1.5 MW
Nameplate capacity	1.7 MW
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The station is the world's 5th largest tidal power plant with the output capacity of 1.7 megawatts (2,300 hp). Station began operating in 1968, but was later shut down for 10 years until December 2004, when funding resumed. The old 0.4 megawatts (540 hp) French-built generation unit was dismantled. In 2004 was installed first new 0.2 megawatts (270 hp) generation unit, and in 2007 – second, 1.5 megawatts (2,000 hp). The site was originally chosen because the long and deep fjord had a fairly narrow outlet to the sea which could easily be dammed for the project. There are plans for two larger scale projects based on this design near Mezen, on the White Sea and Tugur on the Sea of Okhotsk.[1]