Bolarque dam
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| Coordinates | 40 ° 21 '44 " N , 2 ° 49' 7" W | |
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 Spain
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| place | Province of Cuenca | |
| Waters | Tagus | |
| power plant | ||
| owner | Unión Fenosa | |
| operator | Unión Fenosa | |
| construction time | I: 1907 to 1910 II: 1969 to 1974 |
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| Start of operation | I: 1910 II: 1974 III: 2010 |
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| Bottleneck performance | I: 28 MW II: 208 MW III: 4.2 megawatts |
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| Average height of fall |
I: 42 m, II: 269.5 m |
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| Expansion flow | I: 85 m³ / s II: 98.8 m³ / s |
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| Turbines | I: Francis turbines 2 × 14 MW II: Francis turbines 4 × 52 MW |
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| was standing | 2015 | |
The Bolarque dam ( Spanish Presa de Bolarque ) dams the Tajo just below the mouth of the Guadiela . At this point, the Tagus forms the border between the provinces of Cuenca and Guadalajara in Spain . The now decommissioned José Cabrera nuclear power plant is located about six kilometers downstream from the Bolarque dam . The Buendía dam dams the Guadiela about five kilometers northeast of Bolarque .
Construction of the dam began in 1907. On June 23, 1910, the dam was by King Alfonso XIII. officially inaugurated. The dam is owned by the Unión Fenosa Generacion SA
Barrier structure
The barrier structure is a concrete gravity dam with a height of 36 m above the foundation base . The top of the wall is at a height of 643 m above sea level . The length of the top of the wall is 292 m. The volume of the dam is 160,000 m³.
The dam wall has both a bottom outlet and a flood relief . A maximum of 70 m³ / s can be discharged via the bottom outlet, and a maximum of 1,700 m³ / s via the flood discharge.
The Bolarque dam was originally built at a height of 24 m. In 1954 it was then increased by 10 m.
Reservoir
When the reservoir is fully blocked , the reservoir (Spanish: Embalse de Bolarque ) extends over an area of around 5.1 km² and holds 30.71 million m³ of water - of which 23 million m³ can be used.
power plant
The power plant consists of three different systems.
Bolarque I
With an installed capacity of 28 MW, the Bolarque I power plant is one of the smaller hydropower plants in Spain . When it was commissioned in 1910, it was one of the first hydroelectric plants in Spain. In 1954 the systems were renewed and the machine house was replaced by a new one.
The maximum height of fall is 42 m. The maximum flow rate is 85 m³ / s per turbine.
Bolarque II
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The pumped storage power plant (PSP) Bolarque (span. Bolarque Reversible ) was built from 1969 to 1974. It went into operation in 1974 (or 1973). The installed capacity is 203 (or 207 or 208) MW. According to the following source, the power consumption of the PSW in pumping mode is 208 MW and the maximum power in turbine mode is 239 MW.
The PSW is the starting point for the Tajo-Segura Canal . Therefore, in addition to its actual function as a PSP, it also has the task of pumping the water required for the canal to the Bujeda dam, from where the water then flows towards the Alarcón dam . The reservoir of the Bujeda dam is also the upper basin for the PSW Bolarque.
The height of fall is 269.5 (or 245) m. The maximum flow rate is 98.8 m³ / s. The flow rate is 66 m³ / s in pumping mode and 99 m³ / s in turbine mode.
Bolarque III
On June 26, 2010 another power plant with 4.2 MW was put into operation.
See also
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e Pilar Hernández: Bolarque celebra su centenario con una nueva central hidráulica. ABC , July 26, 2010, accessed February 26, 2015 (Spanish).
- ↑ a b c PRESA: BOLARQUE. SOCIEDAD ESPAÑOLA DE PRESAS Y EMBALSES (SEPREM), accessed February 26, 2015 (Spanish).
- ^ A b Ignacio del Olmo: Historia de Bolarque. (No longer available online.) Alcarria.com, September 1, 2002, archived from the original on October 26, 2013 ; Retrieved March 31, 2015 (Spanish).
- ↑ Pumped-Storage Plants in Portugal and Spain. Power Plants Around the World, accessed February 26, 2015 .
- ↑ a b c d EL RECORRIDO DE LA ENERGÍA ITINERARIO ENERGÉTICO 5. (PDF; 302 kB) Fundación de la Energía de la Comunidad de Madrid (Fenercom), accessed on March 1, 2015 (Spanish).
- ↑ La presa de Bolarque. (PDF; 397 kB) Centro de Ciencias Humanas y Sociales, accessed on April 1, 2015 (Spanish).
- ↑ a b Cayetano Espejo Marín, Ramón García Marín: AGUA Y ENERGÍA: PRODUCCIÓN HIDROELÉCTRICA EN ESPAÑA. (PDF; 771 kB) Instituto Interuniversitario de Geografía, Universidad de Alicante, p. 23 , accessed on April 1, 2015 (Spanish).
- ↑ a b c d Tagus-Segura distribution canals. Confederación Hidrográfica del Segura, accessed May 25, 2015 (Spanish).
- ↑ Centrales de Generación de Energía Eléctrica. (PDF; 2.7 MB) (No longer available online.) Open Course Ware (OCW) - Universidad de Cantabria (UC), p. 29 , archived from the original on October 31, 2014 ; Retrieved May 25, 2015 (Spanish).