Start time: 2013
Completion time: 2014
Kazbegi HPP is located on the Brolistskali River, a right tributary to the Tergi River in Stepantsminda Municipality, several hundreds of meters off the Lari Checkpoint at the Russo-Georgian border.
• Installed capacity - 6 mw
• Average annual generation - 29 mln kwh
• Commissioning date - 16 October 2014
• Amount of investment - $3 million
As a diversion hydropower plant, Kazbegi HPP comprises:
• Headworks with a fish pass and an intake
• Sludge chamber
• HPP pressure pipeline
• Powerhouse
• Tailrace canal
• A 6.3/110-kv susbstation
• HV PTL (110 kv)
The electricity generated in the powerhouse is supplied to the 110-kv outdoor transformer substation which is connected to the existing 110-kv Kazbegi PPL by means of a 110-kv PTL.
The water discharged by the plant turbines flows to the Brolistskali River through the tailrace canal.
The hydropower plant operates in an automatic mode.