Hohenwarte I
Facts
Country
Germany
Electricity Capacity
63.7 MWe
Stream
Saale
Head
56 m
Water discharge
2 x 55 m³/s
Turbine type
Francis
Vattenfall ownership share
100 %
Status
In Operation
Hohenwarte I was commissioned in 1942 as a run-of-river power plant with a turbine-generator unit.
In 1959, the installed capacity of the power plant was increased to its current level with the installation of two additional pumped storage units.
With the expansion of the pumps in 2024, the power plant became a storage power plant. The previously used pumped storage facilities were decommissioned as part of the expansion.
The 75-metre-high dam was built primarily for flood protection and dams a lake over a length of 27 kilometres.
The dam has a capacity of around 181 million cubic metres of water.