Wendefurth Power Station

Dam in Wendefurth

51°44′20″N 10°54′25″E / 51.73889°N 10.90694°E / 51.73889; 10.90694StatusOperationalConstruction began1960Opening date1967 (1967)Operator(s)Vattenfall (Germany)Upper reservoirTotal capacity2.0×10^⁶ m³ (2.0 hm³)Lower reservoirTotal capacity8.5×10^⁶ m³ (8.5 hm³)Power StationHydraulic head126 mPump-generators2 x 40 MWInstalled capacity80 MWCapacity factor13.0%Annual generation91 GW·h

Wendefurth Power Station (German: Pumpspeicherwerk Wendefurth) is a pumped-storage hydroelectric power station on the reservoir of the Wendefurth Dam near Wendefurth in the Harz mountains of central Germany.

The power station has an upper reservoir on the mountain top which stores the water.^[1] The two penstocks have a diameter of 3.4 metres (11 ft). The two installed Francis pump turbines can deliver 80 MW. As of 2012^[update] the plant has since its commissioning in 1967 produced 4,105 GWh, corresponding to an average annual production of 91 GWh.^[2]

Gallery

View over the upper basin
Penstocks
Penstocks
Turbine hall
Turbine hall
Turbine hall
Turbine hall

References

^ Pumpspeicherwerk Wendefurth at www.ipernity.com. Accessed on 15 Apr 2011.
^ "Daten und Fakten des Pumpspeicherwerks Wendefurth (Presseinformation" [Data and Facts of the Wendefurth Pumped Storage Power Station (Press information)] (PDF). corporate.vattenfall.de (in German). Retrieved 2017-03-20.