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Tenom Pangi Dam

Tenom Pangi Dam is the hydroelectric plant in Tenom, Sabah, Malaysia.


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Davidson Ditch

Davidson Ditch lay dormant until 1958, when the new Chatanika Power Company purchased it and used one of the siphons to power a hydroelectric plant that drove a dredging operation near Chatanika.

Galetta, Ottawa

A small hydroelectric plant on the Mississippi River is in Galetta, operational since 1907, now the property of Canadian Hydro.

Johnson Siding, South Dakota

Johnson's Mill was also the head of the Hisega Flume, a wooden waterway constructed high on the south cliffs of the Rapid Creek canyon to supply a small hydroelectric plant at Big Bend near present-day Thunderhead Falls in the early 1900s, one of several National Engineering Landmarks in the Black Hills, which is now a popular bed and breakfast.

Lago di Ceresole

The lake was created in 1925-1931 when A.E.M. (now Iren), Turin's electricity authority, built here a dam with a hydroelectric plant; the site, located in what is now the comune of Ceresole Reale, already housed a small natural lake.

Volkhovsky District

The Volkhov is dammed by the Volkhov Hydroelectric Station, which became the first large-scale hydroelectric plant built in the Soviet Union.