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Miranda

Miranda Hydropower Plant

Power Plant Information
  • Name: Miranda
  • Company owner: EDP
  • Location: Pigüeña River in Belmonte de Miranda
  • Watershed: North (Narcea - Nalon)
  • Supply reservoir: Covacho and Pigüeña dams; flowing water
  • Began operations: 1962
  • Usable volume of reservoir (Hm³): 0.01
  • Type of dam: Two gravity dams
  • Power station type: Derivation and groundwater
  • Number of alternators: 4
  • Type of turbine: Pelton, four injectors, vertical
  • Net capacity (MW): 71,79
  • Energy produced in average year: 207,000 MWh
  • Number of sets: 4
  • Maximum flow of equipment: 20 m³/s

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