Hydro Plant

Hydro Plant
Building Requirements	Adjacent river
Production Cost	360
Resource	Aluminum
Maintenance	3
Unlocked at	Electricity

The Hydro Plant is a building available in the Industrial Era.

Game Info

Building a Hydro Plant requires a River adjacent to the city, as well as 1 Aluminum.

• +1 Production from every tile adjacent to a River

With Social Policies / Tenets:

• Young Pioneers (Order): +1 Happiness

Overview

A hydro plant is a building that converts energy from falling water into electrical power. The larger the volume of water and the greater the distance it falls, the more power the plant generates. The Three Gorges Dam in China is the largest hydro power plant ever constructed. When completed it will generate some 22,500 mega-watts, ten times more than the American Hoover Dam.

Hydro plants are generally considered "green" sources of energy, though their impact on local fish can be great. Hydro plants that capture the energy from rising tides have been constructed in coastal areas.

Unique Building Replacements

Icon	Building	Civilization	Yields
	Basinal Dam	Afghanistan (Zahir Shah)	+40 Production cost (400 vs 360). +1 Food in every tile next to a River when constructed in a city on Desert or Snow. +1 Production in every tile next to a River when constructed in a city that's not on Desert or Snow.
	Embankment Dam	Ghana (Kwame Nkrumah)	Contains an Engineer specialist slot Yields Gold for Strategic Resources worked by its city
	Indian Railway	British Raj (Mountbatten)	Adds +10% of the Production output of your City-State Allies to this city. This amount is divided between each Indian Railway you have built across your cities. Requires 1 Coal instead of Aluminium.
	Oil Advisory	Venezuela (Rómulo Betancourt)	Requires Oil instead of Aluminium. Provides +2% Production per allied City-State and +2% Gold per active Declaration of Friendship.
	Represa	Paraguay (Alfredo Stroessner)	Production and Gold output of river tiles is added to the city toward the amount of Food stored after growth
	Royal State Railway	Hanover (Ernest Augustus)	Unlocked at Railroad. No terrain requirements. Does not provide the Hydro Plant's standard benefits. +1 Production per worked Specialist.
	Shannon Scheme Plant	Ireland (Éamon de Valera)	Generates 4 Culture while it is being built. While existing, 5% of the Production generated in city is shared with other cities you control.
	Sug'orish Kanali	Uzbekistan (Islam Karimov)	Does not require aluminum. Lakes and coasts switch between making food and production every 5-10 turns. Allows for a worker to remove a sea resource for massive amounts of production in all cities.