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Trempel Power Plant and Gorge

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Trempel Power Plant and Gorge

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    July 4, 2021

    The power plant with an impressive gorge can only be entered on the official route

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      Details of the Trempel power plant, newly built in 2007:
      Client: Kraftwerk Trempel AG
      CH-9643 Krummenau SG
      Project management: HYDRO-SOLAR AG, Niederdorf BL
      Start of construction: April 10, 2007
      Commissioning: November 5, 2007
      Net head: 24.3 m
      Concession water volume: 8 m3/s
      Installed capacity: 1,800 kW
      Electricity production: approx. 8 million kWh (2,000 households)
      Turbine type: 2 x Francis spiral turbines
      Generators: 2 x Hitzinger synchronous 900 kW capacity
      Transformer: 2,000 kVA

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        Location: Ebnat-Kappel, Toggenburg, St. Gallen, Eastern Switzerland, Switzerland

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