Koralpe power plant
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| Coordinates | 46 ° 38 '2 " N , 14 ° 57' 21" E | ||
| Waters | Upper water: Feistritz ; Underwater: Drava | ||
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| Type | pumped storage power plant | ||
| Primary energy | Hydropower | ||
| power | 50 MW (pump power 35 MW) | ||
| owner | KELAG | ||
| operator | KELAG | ||
| Project start | 1987 | ||
| Start of operations | 1991 | ||
| turbine | Pelton | ||
| Energy fed in per year | 160 GWh | ||
| Website | https://www.kelag.at/pumpspeicherkraftwerke | ||
The Koralpe power plant is a hydropower plant in the municipalities of Lavamünd and Eibiswald (until 2014 Soboth ), Austria . It was built from 1987 to 1991 as a passive storage power plant. For this purpose, the Feistritz was dammed on the Koralm near the Soboth Pass to the Soboth reservoir ( reservoir target 1080 m above sea level ). The catchment area of the reservoir is 29.7 km² due to natural tributaries, but has been enlarged to 66 km² by artificial water diversions. The water is fed through a five-kilometer-long pressure tunnel and a three-kilometer-long pressure line to the power house on the Drau (at the Unterdrauburg reservoir , storage target 339.5 m above sea level ). The maximum raw fall height is 735.5 meters.
From 2009 to 2011, the power plant was expanded into a pumped storage power plant by installing a pumping system that can lift water from the Drava into the storage facility.
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- Pumped storage power plants. KELAG , accessed on October 8, 2018 .
- KW Koralpe: Upgrading to a pumped storage power plant. KELAG , accessed on July 31, 2015 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ List of areas of the Austrian river basins - Drau area. Federal Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, Environment and Water Management , pp. 101-102 , accessed on May 16, 2019 .
- ↑ KW Koralpe: Upgrading to a pumped storage power plant. KELAG , p. 2 , accessed on July 31, 2015 .