Massaboden power plant

Massaboden power plant
location
Coordinates	644 130  /  131342 coordinates: 46 ° 19 '55 "  N , 8 ° 0' 42"  O ; CH1903:  six hundred and forty-four thousand one hundred thirty  /  131342
country	Switzerland
place	Bitsch VS
Waters	Rhone
power plant
owner	Swiss Federal Railways (SBB)
construction time	1915-1916
technology
Bottleneck performance	7.2 megawatts
Average height of fall	53.7 or 43.2 m
Expansion flow	5.0-7.0 m³ / s
Standard work capacity	15 million kWh / year
Others

The power plant Massaboden the Swiss Railways (SBB) is a hydroelectric power plant , the traction power generated. It is located in the town of Bitsch VS . The generator hall contains a reinforced concrete roof structure . It was built in 1915 and 1916 by the architecture firm Fritschi & Zangerl from Winterthur according to plans by the Zurich company Guhl & Geiger . The engineer F. Rothpletz, who was also responsible for the Simplon Tunnel II, took over the construction management . The power station primarily supplied electrical energy for the Simplon line between Brig and Iselle .

The power station draws its water from the Rhone. The system has a gross gradient of 53.7 meters, the effectively usable gradient is 43.2 meters. In 1949 the amount of water used was between 5.0 and 7.0 m³ / s, which has meanwhile been increased to up to 21.5 m³ / s. In 1949 the plant fed an average annual energy volume of 15 million kWh into the grid.

The output from the generators is 7.2 MW.

See also

• List of hydropower plants in Switzerland

Web links

• H. Eggenberger, A. Dänzer: The electricity works Massaboden near Brig Switzerland. Federal Railways. (PDF 2.4 MB) Schweizerische Bauzeitung, Volume 73 (1919), Issue 24, pp. 275–278 , accessed on November 29, 2013 . 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Massaboden hydropower plant. Retrieved December 15, 2019 . 
2. ↑ Guide through the Swiss water and electricity industry , published by the Swiss Water Management Association and the Association of Swiss Electricity Companies, 1949 Volume 1, page 163
3. ↑ Swiss hydropower statistics 2007