Rama Hydroelectric Power Station
The Rama Dam is a concrete-face rock-fill dam on the Rama river, a tributary of the Neretva river, about southwest of the town of Prozor in the Herzegovina-Neretva Canton of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Dam and its hydropower plant are operated by Elektroprivreda HZ HB, public power utility company in Bosnia and Herzegovina owned by Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina entity government.Characteristics
The dam was constructed between 1964 and 1968 with the primary purpose of hydroelectric power production. It is tall and creates Rama Lake. The dam's power station is located underground about to the southeast and discharges back into the Rama River. It contains two 80 MW Francis turbine-generators for an installed capacity of 160 MW. The difference in elevation between the reservoir and power station afford a hydraulic head of.History
The power station ceased operations between 1993 and 1996 due to the Bosnian War.
