The Itaipu Dam's hydroelectric power plant produced the most energy of any in the world as of 2016, setting a new world record of 103,098,366 megawatt hours (MWh), and surpassed the Three Gorges Dam plant in energy production in 2015 and 2016. Completed in 1984, it is a binational undertaking run by Brazil and Paraguay at the border between the two countries, 15 km (9.3 mi) north of the Friendship Bridge. The project ranges from Foz do Iguaçu, in Brazil, and Ciudad del Este in Paraguay, in the south to GuaÃra and Salto del Guairá in the north. The installed generation capacity of the plant is 14 GW, with 20 generating units providing 700 MW each with a hydraulic design head of 118 metres (387 ft). In 2016, the plant employed 3038 workers.[5]
Friendship Bridge on our way to Itaipu Dam
The car line to drive into Paraguay would take 3 hours to cross on this particular day!
Standing with Mr. Megawatt
Those white turbines pictured are large enough to house a semi-truck
The size of this dam was just amazing
The water coming out from the dam is just the water used to cool the turbines
We arrived about 3 weeks after they had shut to dam from runoff
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