Bremm pumped storage plant
The Bremm pumped storage power plant (PSW Bremm) was a pumped storage power plant planned by RWE from the late 1960s on the Moselle with a nominal output of around 1300 MW , but was rejected as a project and not implemented. It would have been the world's largest in the early 1970s .
The power plant was to be built in the Moselle Eifel near Bremm in side valleys of the Lower Moselle . According to a site plan from 1971, in the valley of the Erdenbach, which flows into the Moselle at Alf, between the communities of Kliding , Lutzerath and Urschmitt , a reservoir of six kilometers in length and up to four kilometers in width was to be built as a "large reservoir ", i.e. upper basin . According to the plan, the approximately three-kilometer-long and significantly narrower lower basin was to be built around five kilometers to the east in the Ellerbach valley, which flows into the river at Ediger-Eller , and thus in the immediate vicinity of the southern portal of the Kaiser Wilhelm tunnel . About one kilometer upstream in the Moselle loop near Calmont , Europe's “steepest vineyard”, which now also houses a via ferrata , the river water was to be taken to operate the power plant and fed to it via risers. The power plant's motive water pipeline between the Upper and Lower Lakes would have been around three kilometers long.
The Federal Institute for Hydraulic Engineering carried out "extensive investigations" from 1968 to examine the influence of the power plant water on shipping and came to the conclusion that the planning of the lead structures "over a length of 400 m leads to flow conditions that are suitable for shipping are portable throughout the drainage area ”. Large exploratory drillings were also carried out into the geological subsurface.
reception
In 1991, the story of the power station project served as the script background for the crime scene: Death in the Chopper , the plot of which was then moved to a fictional location in the West Palatinate, where it caused a public stir after its first broadcast. In 2019, Sigrid Faltin addressed this background at the beginning of her half-hour documentary film History of the Chopper on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the crime scene character “ Lena Odenthal ”.
In 1994, research results on the power station cavern of the project near Bremm were included in a dissertation at the Technical University of Munich on the "design of large power station caverns".
In 2012, the Rhineland-Palatinate Greens revived the 40-year-old plans as part of the energy transition .
literature
- H. Stauder, W. Gehrig: Model experiments for the design of the extraction and return structure of the long-term pump storage plant Bremm on the Moselle as well as the effects of the pump and turbine operation on the Fankel reservoir. 1972, unpublished
Individual evidence
- ↑ Distribution network study Rhineland-Palatinate. (PDF) Final report (on behalf of MWKEL ). Öko-Institut and others, January 22, 2014, p. 289 of 453 , accessed on November 3, 2019 .
- ↑ a b c The story of the chopper. Program information with a link to the 30-minute documentary Sigrid Faltins in the ARD media library , there from 2:36 min. (as well as from 29:24). 2019, accessed November 3, 2019 .
- ↑ a b Michael Carl: Green rummage pump storage from the archives. (PDF) In: Energy Info 1/12. BUND , February 2012, pp. 29 and 30 of 60 , accessed on November 3, 2019 .
- ↑ a b Sven Wohlfahrt: Pumped storage plants on federal waterways? (PDF) Colloquium - Text. Bundesanstalt für Wasserbau , 2012, pp. 52 and 53 (PDF pages 8 and 9) , accessed on November 3, 2019 .
- ^ Klaus Hönisch: On the strategy of designing large power house caverns. (PDF) Dissertation . Technische Universität München , 1994, pp. 77 and 78 of 232 , accessed on November 3, 2019 .