Ottmarsheim power plant

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Ottmarsheim power plant
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location
Ottmarsheim power plant (Haut-Rhin)
Ottmarsheim power plant
Coordinates 47 ° 46 '26 "  N , 7 ° 31' 21"  E Coordinates: 47 ° 46 '26 "  N , 7 ° 31' 21"  E
country France
Haut-Rhin department
place Ottmarsheim
Waters Rhine canal
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power plant
operator EdF
Start of operation 1952
technology
Bottleneck performance 160 megawatts
Average
height of fall
15.5 m
Turbines 4 × Kaplan turbine
Others

The Ottmarsheim power plant is a run-of-river power plant on the Rhine canal (French: Grand Canal d'Alsace ) in France . It is located near Ottmarsheim about 15 kilometers east of Mulhouse . The Ottmarsheim power plant is the second power plant in the course of the Rhine Canal, which is derived from the Rhine some 20 kilometers upstream. For navigation on the canal, a lock with two lock chambers was built in a parallel section of the canal . To the north of the power plant, the A36 autoroute or federal motorway 5 crosses the Rhine canal and the Rhine on the Ottmarsheim Rhine bridge .

In the Versailles Treaty in 1919, France was granted the sole right to develop the Rhine as a border river between Germany and France. The power plant, which went into operation in 1952, is part of Électricité de France .

Web links

  • Information (PDF; 2.9 MB) about EDF's Rhine power plants.