Gars power station

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Gars power station
Barrage Gars - panoramio.jpg
location
Gars power plant (Bavaria)
Gars power station
Coordinates 48 ° 9 '12 "  N , 12 ° 18' 46"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 9 '12 "  N , 12 ° 18' 46"  E
country Germany Bavaria
BavariaBavaria 
place Gars on the Inn
Waters Inn
Kilometers of water km 137.5
Height upstream 412.5  m above sea level NN
power plant
owner Verbund AG
operator Verbund AG
construction time 1935-1938
2011-2013
Start of operation 1938
2013
technology
Bottleneck performance 25 megawatts
5 megawatts
Average
height of fall 		approx. 7.70 m
Standard work capacity 122.9 million kWh
43.6 million kWh / year
Turbines 5 × Kaplan turbine
1 × Kaplan bulb turbine
Generators 6th
Others
Website verbund.com , verbund.com
was standing 2015

The Gars power plant is a run-of-river power plant operated by the Austrian Verbund AG in the Upper Bavarian municipality of Gars am Inn .

The power plant is located northeast of the district of Gars-Bahnhof , near the hamlet of Agg .

In order to be able to expand the aluminum smelter in Töging , which until then had been supplied with electricity by the Töging power plant , Innwerk AG commissioned the planning of power plants on the Inn . One of the power plants was finally built in Gars am Inn. The Teufelsbruck power plant and the Wasserburg power plant were built at the same time .

The power plant, built from 1935 to 1938, consists of a four-span weir on the right bank and a power house with five Kaplan turbines on the left. There is no machine hall, the two gantry cranes operate outdoors. In 2011–13 the power plant was expanded to include a Kaplan bulb turbine with an output of 5 MW between the weir fields and the right bank of the Inn.

Since March 2015 there has been a 680 m long fish pass on the left bank of the Innf .

The successor of Innwerk AG, E.ON Wasserkraft  GmbH , sold the power plant in 2009 to the Austrian Verbund AG.

Web links

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