Austrian Drau power plants
Österreichische Draukraftwerke AG (ÖDK) later: Draukraft |
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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.
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 |
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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. |
Picture gallery
Run-of-river power station near Feistritz
Ferlach run-of- river power plant - Maria Rain in Reßnig
Annabrücke run-of-river power station near Gallizien
Anton Mahringer's mosaic fresco in the former ÖDK building
literature
- Gerhard A. Stadler, Manfred Wehdorn , Monika Keplinger, Valentin E. Wille: Architecture in a network. Springer Verlag, Vienna 2007, ISBN 978-3-211-75795-6 .
Web links
Coordinates: 46 ° 37 ′ 16.3 ″ N , 14 ° 16 ′ 3 ″ E