The innovations brought down and yet to come in fields of science and technology is enormous. The way power plants have been useful to human kind is uncountable. So many nations have built up high-tech structures of energy, coal, nuclear and power plants for sustainability and production of resources. Let us choose Power plants this way and below is the list of top ten biggest and famous power plants of the earth.
1. THREE GORGES DAM
The Three Gorges dam which is present in China is the earth’s largest dam about its watt capacity of installation with about 22,500MW in power. It is a type of hydropower plant and made the record for highest supply till 2014.
2. ITAIPU DAM
Itaipu dam which is in located in the borders of Brazil and Paraguay is the world’s second largest hydroelectric power plant with a capacity of 14,000 MW. It took records for its annual generation in the year 2016.
3. XILUODU
China’s Xiluodu power station ranks the third longest dam for its arch in the whole globe. This hydropower station has the capacity of 13,860 MW with a 700 meters long double-curvature, giving the name of the longest dams of the history.
4. GURI
Guri power plant of Venezuela has a total of twenty generational units each ranging from 130 to 770MW. The annual generation if found to be 47 in an average estimate.
5. CATTENOM POWER PLANT
The Cattenom power plant seen in France has a capacity of 3000 MWe with four pressurized water reactor units each working under its separate principle. France is currently the fourth European country for having the best nuclear plants in the world.
6. TUCURUÍ
Tucurui’ of state of Para, Brazil, is the best concrete gravity dam on earth. The installation’s capacity is about 8,370 MW delivering electricity for the Belém town and also to other surrounding areas.
7. ZAPORIZHIA
Zaporizhia which is a type of nuclear power plant is well set in Ukraine is the fourth largest power plant in Europe. This power plant has a total of six Soviets-VVER-1000 pressures for light water reactors, each thereby generating 950 MW. Zaporizhia has the best class of reactors which is exclusive for the areas of Europe and Asia.
8. KASHIWAZAKI-KARIWA
The Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant is the largest, and the modern nuclear power plant which is in a 4.2-square-kilometer area. This is the largest station regarding net electrical generation of power ratings in the whole world.
9. GRAND COULEE
Built on the rivers of Columbia in Washington of USA, the Grand Coulee is a type of gravity dam that generates hydroelectric power and also provides water for irrigation. 6,809 MW projects which consist of three individual plants, along with a concrete gravity dam are meant to be of 168 meters in altitude and 1,592 meters in the distance.
10. SAYANO-SHUSHENSKAYA
Seen on the rivers of Yenisei, Sayanogorsk, Russia, the Sayano–Shushenskaya Dam is the only biggest power plant of Russia and is the 10th-largest hydroelectric plant in the earth. It consists of a total of 10 Francis units with the capacity of generating 640MW each.
