Shore Spillways of Project

The Caucasus is a region with a great potential of water power resources. Water power potential of the Azerbaijan Republic is estimated as high as 16 billion kWh. At the present time utilizable portion of water power potential is 35.5 %. After construction of HES this portion will be  70 %. The Kura and Aras rivers will get 91 % portion of non-installable potential of water power resources of Azerbaijan. At the present time the design works are carried out for construction of Khudafarine. Project on the Aras river frontier with IRI. Reservoir storage capacity will be 1612 million m3. It’s provided to construct of HES with 2 Turbines Plant 200 mW. Annual-mean discharge in dam site of the Aras River is 276 m3/s, 1% maximum discharge –2310 m3/s. Construction of surface and bottom spillways is planned in the project.