Wendefurth Power Station

Wendefurth Power Station
File:Pumpspeicherwerk.jpg Penstocks of the Wendefurth Power Station
Data
Year of completion:	1967
No. of turbines:	2x40 MW
Nominal power output:	80 MW
Penstock (ø):	3.4 m
Average drop:	126 m
Upper Reservoir
Surface area:	0,26 km²
Dam height:	22 m
Reservoir volume:	2.0 million m³
Lower Reservoir
Total storage volume:	8.5 million m³

Wendefurth Power Station (German: Pumpspeicherwerk Wendefurth) is a pumped-storage hydroelectric power station on the reservoir of the Wendefurth Dam near Wendefurth in the Harz mountains of central Germany.

The power station has an upper reservoir on the mountain top which stores the water. The two penstocks (Fallrohre) have a diameter of 3.4 metres (11 ft). The installed turbine performance is 80 megawatts (110,000 hp). The pumped-storage facility was built in 1967.

Gallery

• Oberbecken pumpspeicherwerk wendefurth.jpg

  View over the upper basin

• Harz Talsperre-Wendefurth.jpg

  Penstocks

• Pumpspeicherwerk Wendefurth Einstein.jpg

  Penstocks

• Pumpspeicherwerk Wendefurth Turbinenhalle 1.JPG

  Turbine hall

• Pumpspeicherwerk Wendefurth Turbinenhalle 2.JPG

  Turbine hall

• Pumpspeicherwerk Wendefurth Turbinenhalle 3.JPG

  Turbine hall

• Pumpspeicherwerk Wendefurth Turbinenhalle 4.JPG

  Turbine hall

External links

• Das Pumpspeicherwerk Wendefurth at www.ruebeland.com. Description and map. (German)