Amlach power station

Amlach Power Station
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Official nameKraftwerk Amlach
CountryAustria
Coordinates46°48′06″N 12°44′58″E / 46.8016°N 12.7495°E / 46.8016; 12.7495
StatusOperational
Commission dateMarch 1989
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Lake Tassenbach (Speicher Tassenbach), source of water for Amlach power station

Amlach power station (Kraftwerk Amlach) is a diversionary-run-of-the-river hydroelectricity generating station on the Drava river in Austria. The power station is operated by Tiroler Wasserkraft (TIWAG) on river water flowing between Tassenbach, Strassen, Tyrol and Amlach, near Lienz.[1][2][3][4]

It is the only run-of-river power station in Tyrol. A small natural lake next to Tassenbach railway station is used for water extraction and daily buffering ("pondage"), then the water flows 24 kilometres (15 mi) via underground pipes down a height of 370 metres (1,200 ft) to the power station at Amlach, where two 60-Megawatt Francis turbines are installed, after which the water is returned to the river Drava via a short draft tube and tail race.[5]

For the official opening in March 1989, a special charter train transported guests, including Alois Partl, directly from Innsbruck Hauptbahnhof to a temporary station on the Drava Valley railway [de; it] close to the power station.[6]

  1. ^ "Das Tiwag Kraftwerk in Amlach" (PDF). 2016-10-18. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-10-18. Retrieved 2019-05-24.
  2. ^ "Draukraftwerk - Strassen-Amlach: Geologische Erkenntnisse" (PDF).
  3. ^ "TIWAG-Kraftwerk in Amlach produziert seit 30 Jahren Strom aus Wasserkraft". osttirol-heute.at (in German). 2018-06-14. Retrieved 2019-05-25.
  4. ^ "Netzwerk Wasser Osttirol - Netzwerk Weblog". www.wasser-osttirol.at. Retrieved 2019-05-25.
  5. ^ Aigner, Johann; Kreisler, Andrea; Rindler, Rolf; Hauer, Christoph; Habersack, Helmut (2016-01-08). "Bedload pulses in a hydropower affected alpine gravel bed river". Geomorphology. 291. Elsevier: 116–127. doi:10.1016/j.geomorph.2016.05.015. Upper Drau River upstream of Lienz (Eastern Tyrol, Austria). Due to a hydropower plant, a 24 km long river reach of this alpine gravel bed river is under residual flow conditions
  6. ^ "Das Tiwag Kraftwerk in Amlach" (PDF). Gemeinde Amlach. 2011-11-02. p. 9. Retrieved 2020-01-27. Ein Sonderzeug brachte die geladenen Gäste von Innsbruck nach Lienz. In Leisach wurde eine Sonderbahnstation eingerichtet.