Laiz power plant

Laiz power plant
from left: fish ladder, boat lane and weir
location
Coordinates	48 ° 4 '33 "  N , 9 ° 11' 50"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 4 '33 "  N , 9 ° 11' 50"  E
country	Germany , Baden-Wuerttemberg
place	Laiz
Waters	Danube
power plant
owner	Stadtwerke Sigmaringen
construction time	1998-1999
Start of operation	1999
technology
Bottleneck performance	0.247 megawatts
Average height of fall	2.63 m
Expansion flow	13.6 m³ / s
Standard work capacity	1.1 million kWh / year
Turbines	1
Generators	1
Others

The Sigmaringen-Laiz hydropower plant is a run-of-river power plant on the Danube . The power plant is located in Laiz , a district of Sigmaringen in the district of Sigmaringen in Baden-Württemberg . The owners are Stadtwerke Sigmaringen , which is owned by the city of Sigmaringen.

The entire system consists of a weir on the left with two fields, the water power plant, a boat lane and a fish ladder .

history

In Laiz, a hydropower plant with an electrical output of 247 kilowatts was built on the Danube weir there between 1998 and 1999.

Together with the Sigmaringen hydropower plant , the two plants together produce an average of around 2.1 million kilowatt hours of electricity annually. This corresponds to around three percent of the total electricity consumption. The Stadtwerke invested around 2.1 million euros in both hydropower plants.

Technical specifications

• Year of construction: 1999
• Fall height: 2.63 m
• Power: 247 kW
• Electricity generation: approx. 1,100,000 kWh / a
• Flow: 13.6 m ³ / s

ecology

A fish pass along the right bank serves as bypass water for fish.

Web links

Commons : Kraftwerk Laiz  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Sigmaringen-Laiz hydropower plant

Individual evidence

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2. ↑ Laiz hydroelectric power station on the Danube. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on January 12, 2016 ; Retrieved April 17, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.