RusHydro has completed and commissioned the 10MW Tower Hydroelectric Power Station in the Chechen Republic. The facility is now the largest hydroelectric power station in the region and is expected to provide renewable electricity to over 10,000 households.
The station is located in the Itum-Kalinsky District on the Argun River, part of the Terek River basin. The river’s natural 40m drop over a 1.4km stretch enables efficient electricity generation. The station is named after the nearby 12th-century Ushkaloy Twin Towers.
The ceremonial launch was attended by Chairman of the Government of Chechnya Magomed Daudov, RusHydro executives Nikolay Karpushin and Sergey Kondratyev, regional government officials, and representatives from the construction and design teams.
The station will generate an estimated 52 million kWh of electricity annually. According to RusHydro, the project was designed to minimize environmental impact. “The station was created using a diversion scheme – without a high dam, flooding of land or impact on the water regime of the river,” the company said.
The facility includes a head water intake unit, a pressure basin, turbine water conduits, and a power station building. A 1500m-long diversion tunnel carved into the mountains creates the necessary water pressure, allowing up to 30 cubic meters of water per second to flow through.
The station houses two 5MW hydroelectric units. All equipment was produced by Russian manufacturers and installed by Gidroremont-VKK, a RusHydro subsidiary.
The Tower station is part of RusHydro’s broader program to expand small-scale hydropower in the North Caucasus Federal District. Eight hydroelectric plants have already been completed under the program, including the Cherekskaya HPP in Kabardino-Balkaria, which was also launched in July 2025. Two additional projects – the Nikhaloyskaya HPP in Chechnya and the Verkhnebaksanskaya HPP in Kabardino-Balkaria – are currently in development.
All projects have secured support through the renewable energy capacity supply agreement (CSA-RES) mechanism, which ensures financial viability.
