Operation start: 1949
Power house: underground
Altitude above the sea level: 1,856 m
Pressure (h) 45 m
Installed/ available capacity: 34.24 MW / 25.24 MW
Turbines: 2 x 16.96 MW + 1 x 0.32 MW
Average annual production: 21.2 GWh
Open diversion canals: 2,000 m
Diversion tunnels: 5,797.72 m
Operation regime: Irrigation seasons
The Sevan HPP is the first stage of the Sevan-Hrazdan Cascade implementing water intake from Lake Sevan. It includes:
The shore intake structure, equipped with the fish protection system is a water intake device with three openings, three fish accumulating tunnels which are connected with the fish accumulator tank, which, in its turn, is connected to the spill tunnel of fries. The shore intake structure provides the water releases from Lake Sevan to the HPP and the spill of fries back to the lake without injuring them. This has a significant environmental importance for Lake Sevan.
The HPP’s underground building is located on the depth of 100,0 m and consists of two blocks, i. e. turbine and water-discharge. Two needle gates are located in the water-discharge block, providing the intake of the necessary quantity of water through the Hydro Plant in case of emergency shutdown. Two units with radial and axial turbines are located in the building. The project capacity of each unit makes 17,0 MW, but because of the decrease of the Sevan Lake water level by 15,0 m the available capacity of each hydro unit makes 12,0 MW. There is also a small hydro unit (320 kW) in the building of the plant, which provides the Sevan HPP's restoration during the system's shutdown.
The diversion is of mixed type: the length of a feeding channel is 2,000 m, the length of the diversion pressure tunnel is 283.5 m, the length of the drainage tunnel is 5,514.22 m. The diversion capacity is 70 cubic meters per second. The estimated consumption makes 31.5 cubic meters per second, the idle flow rate makes 5 cubic meters per second.
Sevan HPP
