Overview
Limmern Pumped Storage Plant
Construction of a pumped storage plant in the Swiss canton of Glarus using the existing Limmernboden reservoir as lower storage and the natural Muttsee lake as upper storage.
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About the Project
- Client:
- Kraftwerke Linth-Limmern AG
- Location:
- Switzerland
- Time frame:
- 2007–2016
Technical Data
- Design discharge in turbine/pump mode: 192/146 m³/s
- Head: 630 m
- Installed capacity: 1,000 MW
- Power generation in turbine mode: approx. 3,900 Gwh
- Live storage of the upper reservoir: 25 million m³
- Headrace tunnel (inner Ø 8.0 m, 0.7 km)
- Surge chamber
- 2 inclined shafts (inner Ø 4.2 m, 1.2 km)
- 2 tailrace tunnels (inner Ø 5.2 m, 0.55 km)
- Power cavern (155/50/25 m) , transformer cavern (155/23/23 m)
- 4 pump turbine units
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- Management Consulting
- Engineering
- Project Management
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