Shkopet Reservoir
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| Coordinates | 41 ° 41 '28 " N , 19 ° 49' 49" E | ||||
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| Construction time: | 1959-1963 | ||||
| Height above valley floor: | 102 m | ||||
| Height above the river bed : | 80 m | ||||
| Crown length: | 90 m | ||||
| Power plant output: | 48 MW | ||||
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| Water surface | 6 km² | ||||
| Total storage space : | 14th 000 000 m³ | ||||
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The Shkopet Reservoir (or Shkopeti Lake, Albanian Liqeni i Shkopetit ) is a reservoir in Albania . The dam dams the Mat , the sixth longest river in the country, at an altitude of 102 meters and is located upstream at Shkopet . The reservoir is located entirely in the municipality of Mat ( Qark Dibra ) in the mountains north of the capital Tirana , which is about 35 kilometers away (as the crow flies).
lake
The Shkopet reservoir, which extends in a narrow valley, has an area of around six square kilometers. It is about nine kilometers long and extends to the dam of the Ulza reservoir , the uppermost dam on the Mat. The lake is a maximum of 250 meters wide. It has a volume of around 14 million cubic meters.
The SH 6 follows the course of the lake coming from Milot and continues to Burrel .
Dam and power plant
The Shkopet arch dam is 53 meters high and 90 meters long. It closes a narrow gorge between high rock walls. The power plant, built with Soviet help, went into operation in 1963, six years after the Ulza Dam. The original name was Hidrocentrali Frederik Engels - the facility was named after Friedrich Engels .
The hydropower plant has two Kaplan turbines , each with a capacity of 24 megawatts, in a machine house , which is about 250 meters below the dam at the end of the narrow gorge. The drop height is 35 meters.
At the beginning of the 21st century, the power plant was renewed with international, especially Austrian, support.
On January 9, 2013, the Ministry of Economic Affairs declared the Turkish Kürüm Holding to be the winner of the tender, which had been running since December 2012. The company buys the four hydropower plants from Shkopet, Ulza, Bistrica 1 and Bistrica 2 for a value of 109.5 million euros.
Web links
- Technical information on the Shkopet hydropower plant of the University of Rostock, ( Memento from December 28, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) 2007 (PDF file; 500 kB).
Individual evidence
- ↑ M. Hilej: Statistics Qarku Lezhë. (PDF) (No longer available online.) January 2015, archived from the original on October 2, 2016 ; Retrieved October 2, 2016 (Albanian). 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.
- ↑ a b This information comes from Google Earth .
- ↑ a b c Akademia e Shkencave e RPSSH (ed.): Fjalor enciklopedik shqiptar . Tirana 1985, p. 368 .
- ^ A b Drin River Cascade Rehabilitation Project. (PDF) (No longer available online.) Colenco.ch, June 2004, formerly in the original ; Retrieved October 5, 2011 . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )
- ↑ a b Colenco Info August 2003. (PDF) (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; Retrieved October 5, 2011 . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )
- ^ A b The rehabilitation of Drin River Cascade in Albania - A Financing Project. (PDF) Retrieved October 5, 2011 .
- ↑ DRIN RIVER CASCADE REHABILITATION PROJECT (DRCRP). (PDF) colenco.ch, June 2004, accessed on October 5, 2011 .
- ↑ "Kurum" Fiton tenderin për 4 HEC et. Top Channel , January 9, 2013, accessed January 10, 2013 (Albanian).
