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Andenne
Location: Belgium
Operator: SPE-Luminus
Configuration: 3 X 3.05 MW Straflow
Operation: 1980
T/G supplier: Sulzer Escher Wyss
Quick facts: This plant is at the Andenne lock on
the Meuse. Annual production is about 40 GWh. The Andenne power station is
controlled remotely starting from the control room at the downstream
Ivoz-Ramet plant. The Straflow turbines are 3.55m in diameter.
Photograph courtesy of
SPE-Luminus
Posted 30 Dec 2007 |
Ivoz-Ramet
Location: Belgium
Operator: SPE-Luminus
Configuration: 3 X 3.4 MW Kaplan
Operation: 1954
T/G supplier: Voest
Photograph courtesy of
SPE-Luminus
Posted 30 Dec 2007
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Maurik
Location: Netherlands
Operator: Nuon NV
Configuration: 4 X 2.5 MW Kaplan
Operation: 1988
T/G supplier: Voest, Holec
Quick facts: This plant, one of only four
operational hydroelectric plants in Holland, is on the Amerongen Weir on
the River Maas.
Photograph by Vincent de
Groot (Wikimedia Commons)
Posted 7 Feb 2007 |
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Mery
Location: Belgium
Operator: Merytherm SA
Configuration: 129 kW
Operation: ??
T/G supplier: ??
Quick facts: This is one of two small hydro plants
operated by a local metal-working company.
Photograph courtesy of
Merytherm SA
Posted 13 Jul 2005
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Nisramont Rebuild
Location: Belgium
Operator: Societe Wallonne des Eaux
Configuration: 2 X 621 kW Kaplan
Operation: 2009
T/G supplier: Andritz
Quick facts: This minihydro is on the SWDE water
supply system which supplies over 200 municipalities and 2.5mn water
customers in Wallonia. The original equipment comprised two 440-kW Fancis
sets installed in 1954. In May 2007, SWEDE autorized the expenditure of
€4mn to acquire and install two new, larger machines.
Photograph by Jean-Pol
Grandmont (wikimedia)
Posted 26 Aug 2009 |
