VERBUND’s Ferlach-Maria Rain power plant is a run-of-river power plant situated on River Drau in the municipality of Ferlach, Carinthia.
*Source: ENTSO-E Production 2017
The Ferlach-Maria Rain power plant was built between 1971 and 1975 as the third power plant on the Middle Drava (after Feistritz-Ludmannsdorf and Rosegg-St. Jakob) with the financial involvement of KELAG. Two Kaplan turbines generate 315 GWh of electricity annually entirely from hydropower.
Owner: VERBUND Hydro Power GmbH
Operator: VERBUND Hydro Power GmbH
Commissioning: 1975
Type: Run-of-river power plant
Country: Austria
Region: Carinthia
Waters: Drava
Output: 75 MW
Annual output: 315,758 MWh
Turbine: Kaplan
Connectivity: Fish bypass
Turbines and generators: Each of the two vertically installed machine sets consists of a Kaplan turbine with a nominal output of 37,500 kW and a directly coupled three-phase synchronous generator with a nominal output of 50,000 kVA. The total bottleneck capacity is 75,000 kW.
Weir system: The three weir fields are equipped with pressure segment gates with weir flaps.
The energy is conducted via 110 kV open-air switchgear directly into the provincial grid of Kärntner Elektrizitäts AG (KELAG).
The run-of-river/swell power plant is not occupied and is controlled and monitored remotely from the Feistritz-Ludmannsdorf power plant.
The Ferlach-Maria Rain power plant was built between 1971 and 1975 and co-financed by KELAG.
Sorry, no hits were found.
Sorry, no hits were found.
The construction of a fish bypass at the Ferlach-Maria Rain power plant is currently being planned.
