Gletsch small hydropower plant
| Gletsch small hydropower plant | ||
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| Coordinates | 670 836 / 157341 | |
| country | Switzerland | |
| place | Glacier | |
| Waters | Dead Lake | |
| Height upstream | 1759 m | |
| power plant | ||
| owner | Hermann Seiler | |
| Start of operation | 1942 | |
| Shutdown | 1950s | |
| technology | ||
| Average height of fall |
330 m | |
| Turbines | 1 | |
| Generators | 1 | |
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The small hydroelectric power station Gletsch was posed in 1942 in service Small Hydropower Plant in the carriage house of the Hotels Glacier du Rhone in Gletsch .
history
The electricity generated by the power plant was used to supply Hermann Seiler's Hotel Glacier du Rhône , the Hotel Belvédère on the Furka and the villages of Gletsch, Oberwald and Obergesteln . The water came from the Totensee at the top of the Grimsel Pass via a three hundred meter long pressure pipe . At the end of the pressure line, the water flowed into a Pelton turbine made by Sulzer Escher Wyss . The associated generator came from Brown, Boveri & Cie .
Between 1949 and 1950, the Oberhasli power plants (KWO) built a gravity dam at the Totensee and from then on channeled the runoff water from the lake into the Grimselsee . The existing water rights of the Seiler family on the lake were taken over by the KWO in 1951 and the pressure pipeline was interrupted when the Grimselpass road was built in the 1950s. The small hydropower station was thus canceled; Since then, the power supply for Gletsch has been ensured by KWO.
As part of the celebrations of 100 years of technology on the mountain of the Furka mountain route steam train in 2014, the system was open to the public.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ KWO (Ed.): The KWO in the past and present . ( archive.org ).
- ↑ Walliser Bote: Impressive conclusion to the 100 years celebrations on August 17, 2014, accessed on August 24, 2014