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Daivões Dam
Daivões Dam
	Location of Daivões Dam in Portugal
Official name	Barragem de Daivões
Country	Portugal
Location	municipality Ribeira de Pena, Vila Real District
Coordinates	41°31′27.6708″N 7°51′53.6328″W / 41.524353000°N 7.864898000°W
Purpose	Power
Status	Operational
Opening date	2022
Dam and spillways
Type of dam	Arch-gravity concrete dam
Impounds	Tâmega River
Annual generation	142 Gwh

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Daivões Dam (Portuguese: Barragem de Daivões) is a concrete arch-gravity dam on the Tâmega River. It is located in the municipality Ribeira de Pena, in Vila Real District, Portugal and it is part of the wider Tâmega Electricity-Generating Group formed of 3 dams and 3 plants^[1]

Iberdrola signed a 70 year concession with the Government of Portugal in July 2014 for the design, construction and operation of three projects: Alto Tâmega, Daivões and Gouvães dams.^[2]

Construction of the dam completed in July 2022.^[3]

Dam

Daivões Dam is a 77.5 m tall, 264 m long dam.^[4]

Reservoir

The reservoir surface area for the dam has 1.76 km².^[4]

Power plant

The generating unit of the dam consists of two 59MW Francis turbine units with a maximum flow rate of 220m³/s producing 159GWh of electricity a year. The spillways are located over the dam and consist of four radial gates with a width of 11.5m and height of 9m each with a maximum discharge capacities of 3,400m³/s.^[4]

References

^ "Tamega Project". Iberdrola. Retrieved 2022-07-22.
^ "Financing sought for Tamega river complex". Hydropower Dams. Retrieved 2022-07-22. Cite error: The named reference "HPD" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).
^ Cite error: The named reference PUB was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^ ^a ^b ^c "NS Energy - Tamega River Hydropower Complex". NS Energy. Retrieved 2022-07-22.

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Category:Dams in Portugal Category:Hydroelectric power stations in Portugal Category:Dams completed in 2022 Category:Energy infrastructure completed in 2022 Category:2022 establishments in Portugal

[IBER-1] "Tamega Project". Iberdrola. Retrieved 2022-07-22.

[HPD-2] "Financing sought for Tamega river complex". Hydropower Dams. Retrieved 2022-07-22. Cite error: The named reference "HPD" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).

[PUB-3] Cite error: The named reference PUB was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

[NSE-4] "NS Energy - Tamega River Hydropower Complex". NS Energy. Retrieved 2022-07-22.

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Dam

Reservoir

Power plant

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References