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Geesthacht Pumped-
storage Power Plant
Facts

Country Germany

Electricity Capacity 119 MWe

Stream Elbe

Head 80 m

Water discharge 3 x 66 m³/s

Turbine type Francis

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Status In Operation

Geesthacht pumped storage plant,

near Hamburg, has been operating +
since 1958. −

Characteristics of Geesthacht
Pumped-storage Power Plant
With installed capacity of 120 megawatts (MW), it is the
largest of its type in northern Germany. The Elbe river
serves as its lower reservoir.

The upper reservoir holds around three million cubic Leaflet | © OpenStreetMap contributors

metres of working water, enough for the turbines to run

at full load for four and a half hours. To completely fill
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the upper reservoir, all three machine sets must work in

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pump mode for around nine hours. This pushes the Bleiloch
Germany
water over an 80 metre height difference.

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Geestacht Pumped storage power station (in

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Pumped storage power plants on Wikipedia Goldisthal

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