Key Statistics
- Lake Benmore area: ~ 75 kilometres square
- Lake Benmore shoreline: 116 km
- Dam crest length: 823 metres
- Dam crest height: 110 metres
- Dam width at base: 490 metres
- Dam width at crest: 10.6 metres
- Dam fill: 28 million tonnes
- Head (hydraulic): 92 metres
- Average river water flow: 340 m³/s
- Nominal annual generation: 2,200 GWh
- Installed capacity: 540 MW
- Machinery: 6 x 93,000 kW vertical Francis turbines (Dominion Engineering, Canada), coupled to 6 x 90,000 kW 112,500 kVA generators (Canadian General Electric); 6 transformer banks totalling 1,150 MVA
- Penstocks: Concrete
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