Colbún Hydroelectric Plant is a hydroelectric power station in

Maule Region The Maule Region ( es, Región del Maule, ) is one of Chile's 16 first order administrative divisions. Its capital is Talca. The region derives its name from the Maule River which, running westward from the Andes, bisects the region and spans a ...

Chile Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country in the western part of South America. It is the southernmost country in the world, and the closest to Antarctica, occupying a long and narrow strip of land between the Andes to the eas ...

. The plant uses water from Colbún Lake and produces (or 474 MW) of

electricity Electricity is the set of physical phenomena associated with the presence and motion of matter that has a property of electric charge. Electricity is related to magnetism, both being part of the phenomenon of electromagnetism, as describ ...

.Electricity generation capacity of Chile
b
Comisión Nacional de Energía
/ref> The plant was built by ENDESA in and is run by

Colbún S.A. Colbún is a Public utility, utility company in Chile engaged in the electric power transmission segment. The company was created in 1982 and privatized in 1997. Originally it had only two hydroelectric plants, Machicura and Colbún Hydroelectric ...

References

Energy infrastructure completed in 1985 Energy infrastructure in Maule Region Hydroelectric power stations in Chile {{Hydroelectric-power-plant-stub