{"id":12260,"date":"2022-08-10T15:27:26","date_gmt":"2022-08-10T13:27:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wws-wasserkraft.at\/news\/switzerland-exploiting-unused-potential"},"modified":"2024-02-16T10:58:17","modified_gmt":"2024-02-16T09:58:17","slug":"switzerland-exploiting-unused-potential","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wws-wasserkraft.at\/sq\/news\/switzerland-exploiting-unused-potential","title":{"rendered":"SWITZERLAND: EXPLOITING UNUSED POTENTIAL"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
WWS Wasserkraft developed and produced the electro-mechanical equipment for the Curnera hydropower plant of Kraftwerk Vorderrhein AG (KVR) in Sedrun, Switzerland. This makes it possible to exploit the difference in altitude between the two reservoirs Curnera and Nalps in the best possible way to generate electricity. Since the power plant was commissioned in December 2021, it now generates around 10 million kWh of green electricity per year, which supplies approximately 2,200 average four-person households.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Until recently, the connection between the two reservoirs was only used for water transfer. The potential of the height difference there, which is between 40 and 75 meters depending on the water level, was not used. Axpo AG, the majority owner of the hydropower plant and Switzerland’s largest producer of renewable energy, set itself the goal of utilising the pressure of this head and realised this project with WWS Wasserkraft. This is already the second project for WWS Wasserkraft for Axpo in Switzerland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n