• VolgaGES in Russia is the largest hydroelectric station in Europe as it produces 2541 MW?
• the Kipawa River in Quebec, Canada, is being considered for hydroelectric development which would completely divert it?
• Gants Mill is an historic watermill now generating hydroelectric power from the River Brue?
• Edwards Dam in Maine was the first United States hydroelectric dam to be removed against the dam owner's wishes?
• Croton Dam (pictured), on Michigan's Muskegon River, was the first hydroelectric plant to transmit power at 110,000 volts or more?
• Norway's 93 km (58 mi) long Numedal Line was built to aid the construction of hydroelectric power stations?

Facts on topics related to Hydroelectric

Electricity generation

• the electricity generating capacity of Ethiopia is projected to double when the Gibe III dam and the associated hydropower plant, currently under construction on the Omo River, are completed?
• the Montgomery Worsted Mills, a Registered Historic Place in Montgomery, New York, now earn most of their money by generating hydroelectric power from the nearby Wallkill River, rather than the manufacture of textiles?

Hydropower

• Searsville Dam, built in 1892, currently provides no drinking water, flood control, nor hydropower, but rather it irrigates Stanford University's golf course?
• the electricity generating capacity of Ethiopia is projected to double when the Gibe III dam and the associated hydropower plant, currently under construction on the Omo River, are completed?