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Trempel Power Plant and Gorge

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Trempel Power Plant and Gorge

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

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    July 4, 2021

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    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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    Elevation 710 m

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