Wendefurth Power Station
Data
Year of completion:	1967
No. of turbine Turbine A turbine is a rotary engine that extracts energy from a fluid flow and converts it into useful work.The simplest turbines have one moving part, a rotor assembly, which is a shaft or drum with blades attached. Moving fluid acts on the blades, or the blades react to the flow, so that they move and... s:	2x40 MW
Nominal power output:	80 MW
Penstock Penstock A penstock is a sluice or gate or intake structure that controls water flow, or an enclosed pipe that delivers water to hydraulic turbines and sewerage systems. It is a term that has been inherited from the technology of wooden watermills....  (ø):	3.4 m
Average drop:	126 m
Upper Reservoir
Surface area:	0,26 km²
Dam Dam A dam is a barrier that impounds water or underground streams. Dams generally serve the primary purpose of retaining water, while other structures such as floodgates or levees are used to manage or prevent water flow into specific land regions. Hydropower and pumped-storage hydroelectricity are...  height:	22 m
Reservoir Reservoir A reservoir , artificial lake or dam is used to store water.Reservoirs may be created in river valleys by the construction of a dam or may be built by excavation in the ground or by conventional construction techniques such as brickwork or cast concrete.The term reservoir may also be used to...  volume:	2.0 million m³
Lower Reservoir
Total storage volume:	8.5 million m³

Wendefurth Power Station is a pumped-storage hydroelectric power station on the reservoir of the Wendefurth Dam

Wendefurth Dam

The Wendefurth Dam near Wendefurth in the Harz is one of the dams downstream of the Rappbode Dam, that provides flood protection as well as impounding the River Bode to provide the lower reservoir for the Wendefurth Power Station...

 near Wendefurth

Wendefurth

Wendefurth is a hamlet in central Germany that, since 1 July 2009, has been part of the borough of Thale district of Harz. Previously it belonged to the municipality of Altenbrak which was incorporated into Thale.- Geographical location :...

 in the Harz mountains of central Germany

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

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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 m. The installed turbine

Turbine

A turbine is a rotary engine that extracts energy from a fluid flow and converts it into useful work.The simplest turbines have one moving part, a rotor assembly, which is a shaft or drum with blades attached. Moving fluid acts on the blades, or the blades react to the flow, so that they move and...

performance is 80 MW. The pumped-storage facility was built in 1967.

External links

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