{"id":602553,"date":"2026-02-11T18:50:36","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T16:50:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.visitharju.ee\/?post_type=visitestonia&#038;p=602553"},"modified":"2026-03-30T08:42:50","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T05:42:50","slug":"keila-joa-hydroelectric-power-plant","status":"publish","type":"visitestonia","link":"https:\/\/visitharju.ee\/en\/keila-joa-hydroelectric-power-plant\/","title":{"rendered":"Keila-Joa Hydroelectric Power Plant"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fake-textarea grid6 big\">The earliest mentions of a water mill at Keila-Joa\u00a0date back to\u00a01555. In 1928, Keila-Joa hydroelectric power plant began producing electricity; at the same time, there was also a fish farm here, and an old grain mill continued operating.<\/p>\n<p>The ancillary buildings of the\u00a0<span style=\"line-height: 1.5\">fish farm<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.5\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.5\">were extended in 1936, when a new water intake channel was constructed and the power station was modernised. Further extensions were completed in the late 1950s.<\/p>\n<p>In 2005, its owner, Eesti Energia, restored the exterior of the hydroelectric power plant to its original state of the beginning of the 20th century; the historic complex can be viewed from the outside.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"fake-textarea grid6 big\">The manor&#8217;s water mill belongs in the <a href=\"http:\/\/register.muinas.ee\/public.php?menuID=en_monument&amp;action=view&amp;id=9475\" target=\"_blank\">National Registry of Cultural Monuments.<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":512492,"parent":0,"template":"","visitestonia-kategooria":[33791,33786],"class_list":["post-602553","visitestonia","type-visitestonia","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","visitestonia-kategooria-architecture-and-history","visitestonia-kategooria-history-culture"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Keila-Joa Hydroelectric Power Plant | Visit Harju<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/visitharju.ee\/en\/keila-joa-hydroelectric-power-plant\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Keila-Joa Hydroelectric Power Plant | Visit Harju\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The earliest mentions of a water mill at Keila-Joa\u00a0date back to\u00a01555. 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