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Zeleni Vir Hydroelectric Power Plant

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Zeleni Vir Hydroelectric Power Plant is a hydroelectric power plant located near the town of Skrad, Gorski Kotar region in Croatia.

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The Zeleni Vir Hydroelectric Power Plant is a high-pressure diversion plant that harnesses the water power of the Curak Brook with head of about 50 m. It was built in 1921.

It is operated by Hrvatska elektroprivreda.[1]

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History

At 19:00 on 11 September 1942, a group of around 1000 Partisans attacked a guard stationed at the power plant consisting of 20 Domobrans of the 25th company of the 3rd Regiment of the Second Division [hr], capturing the plant and blowing it up with explosives, leaving Brod Moravice, Delnice and Skrad without electricity.[2]

The Kupa River catchment hydroelectric power plants

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