Flow power plant
A current power plant is a hydroelectric power plant that generates electricity from a river or the ocean current, whereby no weir is required. Examples are power buoys and ship mills .
Ocean current power plants have a very large potential for energy generation, but the technical requirements are immense. In contrast, the potential of flow power plants in rivers is low, but the technical effort is also low.
In October 2010, the first test flow power plant with an output of six kilowatts went into operation in the Rhine near Sankt Goar . In July 2012, the planning of an 11.2 megawatt flow power plant on the Rhine near Rheinberg became known, in which a water flow is set in a swirling motion by a pipe and accelerated and focused on the turbines located on a pontoon in the river. The planning for this power plant has now been discontinued.
Individual evidence
- ↑ FAZ: Propeller wheels under water supply electricity, October 10, 2010
- ↑ rp-online: Enough power for everyone, July 13, 2012
- ^ Electricity from electricity, June 14, 2012
- ↑ Sassan Dastkutah: Rheinberg: No power from the stream. In: RP ONLINE. Retrieved August 10, 2016 .