Tokuyama Dam

The Tokuyama Dam is an embankment dam near Ibigawa, Ibi District, Gifu Prefecture in Japan. The dam turned into finished in 2008 and could assist a 153 MW hydroelectric strength station this is predicted to be completely operational in 2015. Currently, Unit 1 at 23 MW become commissioned in May 2014. The dam became at the beginning supposed to withhold the upper reservoir of a 400 MW pumped-garage strength station until a layout change in 2004.

The dam is also intended for flood manipulate and water deliver. It is the biggest dam with the aid of structural quantity in Japan and withholds the united states's largest reservoir through quantity as properly. In December 1957, Electric Power Development Company J-Power decided on the Ibi River for look at at the 23rd Electric Power Development Coordinating Meeting. By May 1976, the Ministry of Construction launched their bulletin "Policy on Tokuyama Dam Construction Project.

In December 1982, the challenge turned into incorporated into the Electric Power Development Basic Plan. It became permitted via the government in 1998. The authentic venture become a pumped-garage hydroelectric scheme which consisted of the Tokuyama Dam as the upper reservoir, the Sugihara Dam as the decrease and the 400 MW Sugihara Power Plant.