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1. Hydro Power Plant – Tangevaerket

Address: Bjerringbrovej 54, 8850 Bjerringbro, Denmark

Tel: +4586681777

Plus code: 9J32+PX Bjerringbro, Denmark

Gudenaacentralen is a democratic, consumer-owned cooperative, which since 1921 has produced pollution-free electricity based on hydropower from Tange Lake. Electricity production is our main task, and we produce electricity annually corresponding to consumption for approx. 3,000 homes.

Pollution-free electricity based on hydropower

Gudenaacentralen is a democratic, consumer-owned cooperative, which since 1921 has produced pollution-free electricity based on hydropower from Tange Lake. Electricity production is our main task, and we produce electricity annually corresponding to consumption for approx. 3,000 homes.

In addition to electricity production, part of the beautiful nature and Tange Lake belong to Gudenaacentralen, but with open access for citizens. Together with our neighbor – the Energy Museum – has approx. 100,000 visitors and tourists annually enjoy us, as we also are – a unique piece of cultural history and a beautiful natural area. We employ approx. 3-4 employees with electricity production, maintenance of buildings and areas, establishment of fish passages, etc.

 

 

 

2. Pärnu Elektrijaam

Address: Niidu 24, Pärnu, 80047 Pärnu maakond, Estonia

Tel: +3724477210

Plus code: 9GXV+VF Pärnu, Pärnu County, Estonia

 

 

3. Fortum Oyj

Address: Keilalahdentie 2-4, 02150 Espoo, Finland

Tel: +358104511

Plus code: 5R9H+WJ Espoo, Finland

Hydropower and wind power as well as solar and bioenergy are all renewable energy. These elements form an additional 100% Renewable Energy feature, which you can advantageously attach to your electricity contract.

You can order a change of origin for any of your current or new Fortum electrical contracts, either here or by calling customer service.

 

 

 

4. Goldenfalls Hydro Electric Plant

Address: Broadleas Commons, Golden Falls, Co. Kildare, Ireland

Tel: +35340445108

Plus code: 49FQ+C2 Golden Falls, County Kildare, Ireland

 

 

 

5. Hydroenergy Latvia , SIA

Address: Meža prospekts 16 – 1, Ziemeļu rajons, Rīga, LV-1014, Latvia

Tel: +37129252719

Plus code: 2545+FV Riga, Latvia

 

 

 

6. Kruonis PSP

Address: 56312, Lithuania

Tel: +37052830259

Plus code: Q6XW+PX Lašiniai, Lithuania

 

The Kruonis Hydro Accumulation Power Plant operated by Ignitis Production is the only power plant of this type in the Baltic States, located north of the town of Kruonis in the Kaišiadorys district. This type of power plants is classified as a new generation of energy facilities. KHAE is designed to balance electricity generation and consumption, as well as to prevent and eliminate accidents in the energy system. KHAE also ensures a secondary emergency reserve of the Lithuanian electricity system.

 

 

 

7. Harsprånget hydroelectric power station

Address: Unnamed Rd,, 982 60 Porjus, Sweden

Plus code: VRP9+2Q Harsprånget, Sweden

Harsprånget’s power plant is located in Luleälven approximately 8 kilometers downstream of Porjus. Thanks to the proximity to the iron ore district, it was natural that Harsprånget’s waterfall was selected early for electricity production.

 

 

 

8. Carsfad Power Station

Address: Castle Douglas DG7 3SU, United Kingdom

Plus code: 4RV6+F8 Castle Douglas, United Kingdom

Drax operates a generation portfolio of sustainable biomass, hydro-electric and pumped hydro storage assets across four sites in England and Scotland. It is the UK’s largest source of renewable electricity. The company also operates a global bioenergy supply business with manufacturing facilities at 13 sites in the United States and Canada, producing compressed wood pellets for its own use and for customers in Europe and Asia.

 

 

9. VERBUND Hydro Power plant Freudenau

Address: Prater Spitz, 1020 Wien, Austria

Tel: +43503130

Plus code: 5FGJ+48 Vienna, Austria

 

 

 

10. European Small Hydropower Association – ESHA

Address: Rue d’Arlon 63, 1040 Bruxelles, Belgium

Tel: +3224001067

Plus code: R9RF+XJ Brussels, Belgium

 

The three years SEE HYDROPOWER project, financed by the South-East Transnational Cooperation Programme (EU), aims to a sustainable exploitation of water concerning hydropower production in SEE countries, looking up to renewable energy sources development, preserving environmental quality and preventing flood risk.

SEE HYDROPOWER defines specific needs and test methodologies & tools, in order to help public bodies to take decisions about planning and management of water and hydropower concessions, considering all multi-purposes uses, taking into account the environmental sustainability of natural resources and flooding risks.

Competition between water users (for drinking, irrigation, industrial processes, power generation, etc.) is becoming a serious problem, and there is a strong need of a more accurate planning and management optimization of the resources. SEE HYDROPOWER aims to be the solution!

 

 

11. Hace Hydro Air Concept Energy

Address: 1 Allée Jean Rostand, 33650 Martillac, France

Tel: +33524733429

Plus code: PC79+98 Martillac, France

 

 

12. Reuter power station

Address: Otternbuchtstraße 11, 13599 Berlin, Germany

Plus code: G6JW+PQ Berlin, Germany

 

Vattenfall is a European energy company with around 20,000 employees. For more than 100 years we have been supplying households, commercial and industrial customers with energy and modernizing our way of life through innovation and cooperation. We are determined to enable a fossil-free life within a generation. To be successful, we have to become fossil-free ourselves. But that’s not enough. We look beyond our own industry to see where we can really make a difference. Together with our partners, we take on the responsibility to find new and sustainable ways to electrify transport, industry and our heat and power generation.

 

 

13. Pumpspeicherkraftwerk Vianden Oberer Stausee

Address: CR322, 9410 Vianden, Luxembourg

Plus code:W5QJ+QX Vianden, Luxembourg

 

The first plans to use hydropower in the Ourtal were made at the beginning of the 20th century. For economic and political reasons, however, they were not implemented.

It was only after the Second World War that the Luxembourg government took up the idea of ​​building a pumped storage power plant again. The project had a European character from the start, with people from numerous countries involved in both planning and implementation.

On July 10, 1958, the legal basis for the Vianden pumped storage power plant was created with the conclusion of the State Treaty between the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and the State of Rhineland-Palatinate.

Construction work on the power plant began in August 1959. In the winter of 1962/1963, the first 4 machine sets were put into operation. A year later, the second expansion stage, which includes 5 machines, was also completed. The official inauguration took place on April 17, 1964.

In the spring of 1970, the third expansion phase with a reversible pump turbine was tackled. The final commissioning finally took place in autumn 1976. The fourth expansion phase with machine 11 (reversible pump turbine) took place in December 2014.

 

 

14. Coo-Trois-Ponts Hydroelectric Power Station

Address: Route Lac 1, 4980 Trois-Ponts, Belgium

Tel: +3280892811

Plus code: 9VM6+RH Trois-Ponts, Belgium

 

 

15. Sestrimo Hydro Power Plant

Address: ВЕЦ Сестримо, Bulgaria

Tel:

Plus code: 6W58+98 Sestrimo, Bulgaria

NEK EAD invests in the rehabilitation and modernization of its HPPs and SHPPs in order to increase electricity production from renewable energy sources and efficient use of the country’s available hydropower potential.

Project for rehabilitation of the Belmeken-Sestrimo-Chaira hydropower complex and rehabilitation of the 110 kV switchyard at Vacha-1 HPP and other HPP systems under general control

With the implementation of the project “Rehabilitation of the Belmeken-Sestrimo-Chaira hydropower complex and rehabilitation of the 110 kV switchyard of Vacha-1 HPP and other HPP systems under general control” the National Electric Company will increase the reliability and efficiency of the plants and increase their resource.

 

 

16. Stream – Hydropower

Address: Pod Vilami 707/30, 140 00 Praha 4-Nusle, Czechia

Tel: +420774859089

Plus code: 3C6W+66 Prague 4, Czechia

The company was established in 2010 in Prague by Karel Kraml, a freelance expert in hydroelectric power, in order to develop small hydropower plants in the Czech Republic. After a few years the core business expanded into conducting expert analysis on hydropower plants all over the world. The company’s teams quickly formed several departments, providing complex solutions to hydroelectric power stations, and dealing with systems designed to output up to hundreds of MW.

 

 

17. Hydro Power Consulting Kft.

Address: Budapest, Bozókvár u. 8, 1118 Hungary

Plus code: F298+6G Budapest, Hungary

 

 

18. Dumitra Hydro Power Plant

Address: DN66, Romania

Plus code: 79XH+CH Bumbești-Jiu, Romania

 

 

 

19. Hydroelectric power plant Dobšiná

Address: 049 73 Dedinky, Slovakia

Plus code: V94M+5G Dedinky, Slovakia

 

Slovakia’s first larger pumped storage power plant, the Dobšiná power plant has been operated since 1953. Following its reconstruction in 2003, its power has increased to 2 x 12 MW. It has a horizontal layout – at one axis it has in the middle a motor-generator and on the one side a Francis turbine and on the other a high-pressure pump. It is also interesting in that it moves water from the Hnilec catchment to the Slaná catchment area.

 

 

20. Kyiv Hydroelectric Power Plant 409 MW

Address: Київська ГЕС, Vyshhorod, Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine, 07300

Tel: +380459658774

Plus code: HGQ6+8W Vyshhorod, Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine

Kyiv HPP is the first (upper) step of the Dnieper cascade of hydroelectric power plants, located on the Dnieper River and located a few kilometers from Kiev. The station is part of the Cascade of Kyiv HPPs and PSPs branch. Kyiv HPP was built in record time: 1960-1968.

For the first time in the former USSR, low-pressure horizontal capsule hydraulic units were used at the Kyiv HPP.

The uniqueness of the Kyiv hydroelectric power station is that here, for the first time in the practice of domestic hydraulic engineering, the HPP building was combined with a concrete spillway dam with 20 spillways.

Today, the building of the HPP is 51 m wide and 285 m long of the connected type, structurally divided by temperature-sediment seams into five blocks of 4 horizontal-capsule units in each.

At the beginning of 2021, the installed capacity of Kyiv HPP is 440 MW.

 

 

21. Dnister Hydroelectric Power Plant 702MW

Address: Novodnistrovs’k, Chernivtsi Oblast, Ukraine, 60236

Tel: +380374132033

Plus code: HFV3+C6 Novodnistrovs’k, Chernivtsi Oblast, Ukraine

 

 

22. Hydro Power Plant

Address: Rruga Arkitekt Kasemi, Tirana, Albania

Plus code: G67M+GC Çorovoda, Albania

 

 

23. The hydro power plant Lešće

Address: 47262, Duga Gora, Croatia

Plus code: 88XW+F6 Duga Gora, Croatia

 

 

The Lešće hydroelectric power plant is an accumulation dam plant with a capacity of 42.29 MW, it was built on the river Donja Dobra and its accumulation continues at HPP Gojak. It was built downstream from Ogulin, near the town of Lešće and Generalski Stol, in Karlovac County in the Kupa River basin. Donja Dobra originates from the rivers Ogulinska Dobra and Zagorska Mrežnica, which are directed by HPP Gojak. HPP Lešće represents the second energy step in exploiting the water potential of the river Dobra. By dividing the riverbed, an accumulation lake was created, which starts right behind HPP Gojak. HPP Lešće is designed as a single-purpose plant with the possibility of daily to weekly water leveling.

 

 

 

24. Green Energy Group

Address: Νίκου και Δέσποινας Παττίχη 107Β, Limassol 3070, Cyprus

Tel: +35725734800

Plus code: M2R8+JG Limassol, Cyprus

 

 

25. ΤΕΡΝΑ ΕΝΕΡΓΕΙΑΚΗ

Address: Μεσογείων 85, Athina 115 27, Greece

Tel: +302106968000

Plus code: XQQ9+MF Athens, Greece

 

TERNA ENERGY, member of GEK TERNA Group, is a leader in clean energy. With a strong portfolio of almost 2.000 MW of RES projects (installed or under construction) in Greece and abroad, TERNA ENERGY is the largest investor in the RES sector in Greece and the biggest Greek company in the sector worldwide.

Having invested approximately € 2 billion so far, TERNA ENERGY continues its dynamic growth with new investments of 2 billion euros in clean energy electricity production and storage projects as well as environmental and waste management projects.

 

 

26. Roncovalgrande Hydroelectric Plant

Address: 21010 Maccagno con Pino e Veddasca, Province of Varese, Italy

Tel: +390683051

Plus code: 3P9J+2Q Maccagno con Pino e Veddasca, Province of Varese, Italy

 

 

 

 

27. Energy Management Solutions (EMS) Ltd

Address: 69 Triq l-Imdina, Ħal Qormi, Malta

Tel: +35627555597

Plus code: VFGF+5H Qormi, Malta

 

 

28. EDP Renovaveis

Address: R. Ofélia Diogo da Costa 115 6º andar, Porto, Portugal

Tel: +351920387412

Plus code: 5959+RF Porto, Portugal

 

 

 

29. Errochty Dam

Address: Unnamed Rd, Pitlochry UK PH18 5UG, United Kingdom

Plus code: QV7V+RR Dalchalloch, Pitlochry, United Kingdom

 

Our ‘Hindsight is 2050 vision’ report, developed in collaboration with KPMG, sets out the lessons that can be learned from the UK’s success in decarbonising its power sector and guide how we can rapidly reduce emissions across the globe.

 

 

30. Green Highland Renewables Ltd

Address: Inchrory Dr, Dingwall IV15 9XH, United Kingdom

Tel: +441349867020

We have been developing run-of-river hydro schemes since 2007, identifying potential and implementing innovative development strategies in order to progress projects through every step of the development cycle.

We work with landowners, government agencies, utility companies, communities, and multinational businesses to provide bespoke, turnkey solutions to deliver hydropower potential.

We have extensive in-house capability covering planning, development, and funding as well as civil, mechanical, and electrical engineering.

Since 2007 we have grown to become the largest independent hydro developer in the UK.

 

 

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