Hohenwarte II
Facts
Country
Germany
Electricity Capacity
320 MWe
Stream
Obere Saale
Head
303 m
Water discharge
8 x 16.1 m³/s
Turbine type
Francis
Vattenfall ownership share
100 %
Status
In Operation
The Hohenwarte II pumped storage power plant is located on the Saale river in Thuringia. It was commissioned in 1966.
Hohenwarte II is equipped with eight turbines.
The upper reservoir is an artificial lake which can hold around three million cubic metres of water, enough for the turbines to run at full load for seven hours. Eichicht dam, with a capacity of around five million cubic metres of water, acts as its lower reservoir. It is also the lower reservoir for Hohenwarte I pumped storage plant.