Voith has announced it has recently received an order for a hydropower plant in Norway and also successfully concluded two hydropower projects in Austria.
The order to equip Braskereidfoss power plant at the Glomma River in South Norway - the country's widest and longest inland waterway - is worth about EUR18M and constitutes a joint project by the Voith Hydro companies in Norway and Austria. Voith will deliver the complete generator-turbine unit with an output of 15.7MW including all automation systems. The new unit will be built directly alongside an existing power plant and can therefore utilize the existing infrastructures.
Voith has also successfully concluded its extensive contracts for the Sohlstufe Lehen and Pernegg hydropower stations in Austria.
The company installed two 7.2MW Kaplan machine sets, synchronous generators and the complete electro-mechanical equipment for the Sohlstufe Lehen plant in Sankt Pölten. It has also delivered three new generators, Kaplan turbines and all associated control systems for the modernization project at the 'Pernegg an der Mur' run-of-river plant. The original turbines of the hydropower plant dating back to 1927 - at the time the most powerful run-of-river plant in Austria - had also been built by Voith and provided over 600,000 hours of reliable service during their more than 80 years of operation.
Image: Sohlstufe Lehen power plant in Austria
