The Middle Dnieper Hydroelectric Station is a

run-of-river Run-of-river hydroelectricity (ROR) or run-of-the-river hydroelectricity is a type of hydroelectric generation plant whereby little or no water storage is provided. Run-of-the-river power plants may have no water storage at all or a limited amou ...

power plant on the

Dnieper River } The Dnieper () or Dnipro (); , ; . is one of the major transboundary rivers of Europe, rising in the Valdai Hills near Smolensk, Russia, before flowing through Belarus and Ukraine to the Black Sea. It is the longest river of Ukraine an ...

in Kamianske,

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, operated by

Ukrhydroenergo PJSC «Ukrhydroenergo» ( uk, Укргідроенерго) is a state company of Ukraine that administers a cascade of major hydro power plants along Dnieper and Dniester riversPrivate Joint Stock Company «Ukrhydroenergo»is Ukraine's main hydro ...

. The primary purpose of the dam is

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power generation and

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. It is the fourth dam in the Dnieper cascade. The dam has an associated

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and a power station with an installed capacity of 352 MW. Construction on the dam began in 1956 and the last generator was commissioned in 1964. Until 2016 the plant was named Dniprodzerzhynska HES, after the Soviet name of the town of Kamianske.

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