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Las Vacas Dam, the Glossary

The Las Vacas Dam (Planta Hidroeléctrica Río Las Vacas) is a reinforced concrete gravity dam and power plant spanning the Las Vacas River near the village of San Antonio Las Flores in the municipality Chinautla, Guatemala.^[1]

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Chinautla

Chinautla is a city and municipality in the Guatemala department of Guatemala.

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Gravity dam

A gravity dam is a dam constructed from concrete or stone masonry and designed to hold back water by using only the weight of the material and its resistance against the foundation.

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Guatemala

Guatemala, officially the Republic of Guatemala, is a country in Central America.

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Guatemala Department

Guatemala Department is one of the 22 departments of Guatemala.

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Hydroelectricity

Hydroelectricity, or hydroelectric power, is electricity generated from hydropower (water power).

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Iberdrola

Iberdrola is a Spanish multinational electric utility company based in Bilbao, Spain.

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Kilowatt-hour

A kilowatt-hour (unit symbol: kW⋅h or kW h; commonly written as kWh) is a non-SI unit of energy equal to 3.6 megajoules (MJ) in SI units which is the energy delivered by one kilowatt of power for one hour.

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Las Vacas River

The Las Vacas River is a river in Guatemala.

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List of hydroelectric power stations in Guatemala

This is a list of hydroelectric power stations in Guatemala:INDE. Las Vacas Dam and list of hydroelectric power stations in Guatemala are hydroelectric power stations in Guatemala.

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Motagua River

The Motagua River is a river in Guatemala.

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Peak demand

Peak demand on an electrical grid is the highest electrical power demand that has occurred over a specified time period (Gönen 2008).

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Peaking power plant

Peaking power plants, also known as peaker plants, and occasionally just "peakers", are power plants that generally run only when there is a high demand, known as peak demand, for electricity.

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Pelton wheel

The Pelton wheel or Pelton Turbine is an impulse-type water turbine invented by American inventor Lester Allan Pelton in the 1870s.

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Plastic recycling

Plastic recycling is the processing of plastic waste into other products.

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Power station

A power station, also referred to as a power plant and sometimes generating station or generating plant, is an industrial facility for the generation of electric power.

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Reinforced concrete

Reinforced concrete, also called ferroconcrete, is a composite material in which concrete's relatively low tensile strength and ductility are compensated for by the inclusion of reinforcement having higher tensile strength or ductility.

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Watt

The watt (symbol: W) is the unit of power or radiant flux in the International System of Units (SI), equal to 1 joule per second or 1 kg⋅m2⋅s−3.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Las_Vacas_Dam

Also known as Las Vacas Hydroelectric Dam.