Characteristics of Bleiloch Pumped-storage Power Plant
Facts
Country
Germany
Electricity Capacity
79.8 MWe
Stream
Obere Saale
Head
49 m
Water discharge
2 x 90 m³/s
Turbine type
Francis
Vattenfall ownership share
100 %
Status
In Operation
Bleiloch pumped storage plant, on the upper run of the river Saale, started operations as early as 1932.
It has installed capacity of 80 megawatts (MW). Bleiloch dam serves as its upper reservoir. Able to hold around 213 million cubic metres of water, it is Germany's most capacious dam. Along with other dams (including Hohenwarte and Eichicht), it forms the "Saale cascade", German's largest connected series of reservoirs. In 2016, Bleiloch reservoir was named a "historic emblem of civil engineering".