Tummel hydropower plant

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Tummel hydropower plant
Tummel hydropower plant 2008
Tummel hydropower plant 2008
location
Tummel hydroelectric power station (Scotland)
Tummel hydropower plant
Coordinates 56 ° 42 '23 "  N , 4 ° 1' 16"  W Coordinates: 56 ° 42 '23 "  N , 4 ° 1' 16"  W
Waters Bustle
Data
power 34,000 kW
Project start 1931
Start of operations 1933
turbine 2 × Francis turbine
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The Tummel hydropower plant is a hydropower plant on the Tummel in the Scottish council area of Perth and Kinross . In 2011, the structure was included in the Scottish monument lists in the highest monument category A.

history

The installation of a network of hydropower plants along the river Tummel is one of the early projects in Scotland to generate energy from hydropower after the end of World War II . However, some private power plants were built independently before the war broke out. In addition to the Tummel hydropower plant, this also includes the Rannoch hydropower plant . The final Pitlochry hydroelectric power station was completed in 1950. Unlike the run-of-river power plants used in an earlier network in Argyll and Bute , the network along the Tummel focuses in particular on the damming of lakes.

The Tummel hydropower plant was built between 1931 and 1933. William Halcrow was available as a consultant for the planning . Balfour Beatty carried out the work.

description

To the west of the power station, the tummel that flows out of Loch Rannoch is dammed to form Dunalastair Water . Part of its water is discharged via a weir and led south of the course. Here it overcomes a lower difference in altitude than the Tummel and after several kilometers it reaches the head of the watercourse above the power station. About penstocks with a gross head of 53 meters, it is the engine house supplied in the two vertical Francis turbines installed with a total output of 34,000 kW.

The engine house on the Tummel Bridge has a neoclassical design. Central and corner projections emerge on the north-facing main facade of the two-story building . It is seven axes wide. Simple pilasters structure the facade vertically. The high windows on the ground floor close with flat segmental arches with indicated keystones . A cornice completes the facade.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Listed Building - Entry . In: Historic Scotland .
  2. ↑ Information from the operator, p. 19.
  3. ↑ Entry on Tummel hydropower station  in Canmore, Historic Environment Scotland database

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