Upper Danube power plants

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Obere Donau Kraftwerke AG
legal form Corporation
founding 18th December 1958
Seat Munich
Branch power supply

The Upper Danube power stations AG is a company founded on December 18, 1958 a subsidiary of the Rhein-Main-Donau GmbH , based in Landshut, which owns six hydroelectric power plants on the upper Danube between Ulm and Dillingen is. The company is owned by Rhein-Main-Donau AG with a share of 60% and Energie Baden-Württemberg AG with 40% . EnBW markets all of the electricity from the power plant.

The company's six power plants are equipped identically. Each power plant has two sets of machines. The machines are two double- regulated Kaplan turbines with a standing shaft and each with a directly attached synchronous generator . The drop heights vary between 5.00 and 6.61 meters, the total output per power plant is between 7.35 and 10.1 megawatts, with an average of 49.5 GWh per power plant and year. The management of the power plants lies with Bayerische Elektrizitätswerke GmbH in Augsburg .

Power plants
power plant place Power [MW] Height of fall [m] Number of turbines Standard energy capacity [GWh] Construction year River kilometers
Oberelchingen power plant Oberelchingen 9.35 6.50 2 49.2 1960 2575.058
Leipheim power plant Leipheim 9.37 6.50 2 50.1 1961 2568.46
Günzburg power plant Gunzburg 9.0 6.50 2 51.0 1962 2562.76
Offingen power plant Offingen 7.35 5.00 2 42.6 1963 2556.37
Gundelfingen power plant Gundelfingen 7.35 5.00 2 42.6 1964 2551.95
Faimingen power plant Faimingen 10.1 6.61 2 61.0 1965 2545.56

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Individual evidence

  1. Company structure. Rhein-Main-Donau AG , accessed on November 27, 2017 .
  2. KW Gundelfingen starts revision series of the Upper Danube power plants. In: zek Hydro. February 2016, pp. 32–35 , accessed on February 21, 2017 .
  3. An overview of the power plants on the Upper Danube. Archived from the original on March 28, 2016 ; Retrieved July 27, 2008 .
  4. Press information on the 50th anniversary of the Günzburg power plant ( memento of the original from April 3, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) 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. (PDF; 33 kB) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bns-augsburg.de