Vogelgrun power plant
| Vogelgrun power plant | ||
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| Coordinates | 48 ° 1 '13 " N , 7 ° 34' 26" E | |
| country |
France Haut-Rhin department |
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| place | Bird green | |
| Waters | Rhine canal | |
| power plant | ||
| operator | EdF | |
| Start of operation | 1959 | |
| technology | ||
| Bottleneck performance | 140 megawatts | |
| Average height of fall |
12.3 m | |
| Turbines | 4 × Kaplan turbine | |
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The Vogelgrun power plant is a run-of-river power plant on the Rhine canal (French: Grand Canal d'Alsace ) in France . It is located near Vogelgrun in the Haut-Rhin department . The Vogelgrun power plant is the last of the four power plants along the Rhine Canal, which flows back into the Rhine about one kilometer below the power plant. For navigation on the canal, a lock with two lock chambers was built in a parallel section of the canal . The connecting road between Breisach am Rhein on the German side and Colmar crosses the canal (“Europabrücke”) directly above the power station.
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 1959, is part of Électricité de France .
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- Energie.edf.com (Information about EDF's Rhine power plants, PDF, 2.9 MB)