Austrian Drau power plants

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Österreichische Draukraftwerke AG
(ÖDK)
later: Draukraft
legal form AG
founding 1947
resolution 2000
Reason for dissolution Incorporation into VERBUND Hydro Power AG
Seat Klagenfurt

The Austrian Draukraftwerke AG (ÖDK) or Draukraft is a former energy industry company that in 1947 in Klagenfurt was founded and existed until the 2000th Although the power plants on the Drau gave the company its name, not all Carinthian Drau power plants were operated by the ÖDK, and only some of their power plants were hydroelectric power plants on the Drau .

Company history

After the Second World War, with the 2nd Nationalization Act of March 26, 1947, a large part of the Austrian electricity plants became the property of the federal states, while some large power plants were subordinated to special companies in which the federal government held the majority. The companies' tasks were the determination of the energy demand, the construction and operation of power plants as well as the installation and maintenance of the national high-voltage network.

Kölnbrein storage facility of the Malta power plants

One of these special companies, Österreichische Draukraftwerke AG , initially took over the Schwabegg and Lavamünd hydropower plants, which were only completed shortly before during the war, and the Voitsberg steam power plant . The company later operated ten run-of- river power plants on the Drau , two storage power plants with a total of 14 storage power plant groups, two steam power plants, and two biogas plants in St. Andrä and Zeltweg over a distance of 150 kilometers . At 2.2 GW, the total output was the highest of all energy supply companies in Austria. Their run-of-river power plants generated around 50%, the storage power plants 38% and the thermal power plants around 12% of the energy.

In 1988, as a result of an amendment to the 2nd Nationalization Act, Österreichische Elektrizitätswirtschafts-AG (now Verbund AG ), owned by the Republic of Austria, took over 51% of the shares in ÖDK; KELAG took a 49% stake in the company. On September 13, 2000, Österreichische Draukraftwerke AG was incorporated retroactively to January 1, 2000 into the subsidiary VERBUND Hydro Power AG , which was founded in 1999 . From then on, the thermal power plants were operated by VERBUND Thermal Power GmbH & Co KG .

Power plants of the former Draukraft

Name or location Type Nominal power
( MW )
Standard energy
(million  kWh / year)
start of building Installation Remarks
Annabrücke Run-of-river power plant 90.0 390.0 1976 1981
Edling Run-of-river power plant 87.0 407.0 1959 1962
Feistritz / Ludmannsdorf Run-of-river power plant 88.0 354.0 1965 1968
Ferlach / Maria Rain Run-of-river power plant 75.0 318.0 1971 1975
Kellerberg Run-of-river power plant 24.6 96.0 1982 1985
Lavamünd Run-of-river power plant 28.0 156.0 1942 1949
Malta power plants Storage power plant 76.0 120.0 1971 1977 Advanced level ( Malta ); Expansion 1989–1992
730.0 715.0 1971 1979 Main stage ( Reisseck )
Run-of-river power plant 41.0 120.0 1971 1979 Lower level ( Möllbrücke )
Paternion Run-of-river power plant 23.5 95.0 1985 1988
Reisseck-Kreuzeck Storage power plant 67.5 73.0 1961 Reisseck annual storage facility, largest drop in the world (1,773 meters)
23.2 62.0 Reisseck Tagesspeicher
45.0 163.0 Kreuzeck day storage
Run-of-river power plant 1.6 7.0 Niklai
0.6 2.2 Mühldorf
0.2 0.6 Steinfeld
Rosegg / St. Jakob Run-of-river power plant 80.0 338.0 1970 1974
St. Andrä / L. Thermal 124.0 1949 1952 St. Alter 1 with 3 × 20 MW + 1 house turbine 7.5 MW 1949-52, St. Alter 2 with 110 MW 1958-59, 1986 increase in output to 124 MW, with the shutdown of St. Alter 1. Until 1968 burning of the Lavant Valley extracted lignite, then lignite from western Styria and former Yugoslavia.
Schwabegg Run-of-river power plant 79.0 378.0 1939 1943
Villach Run-of-river power plant 24.6 100.0 1981 1984
Voitsberg 3 Thermal 330.0 1983 The Voitsberg 1 and Voitsberg 2 power plant blocks were commissioned in 1953 and 1956, and decommissioned in 1983 and 1985, respectively.
Zeltweg Thermal 137.0 1959 1962 Erected to burn the lignite mined in Fohnsdorf , converted for hard coal in 1982.

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Coordinates: 46 ° 37 ′ 16.3 ″  N , 14 ° 16 ′ 3 ″  E