Who supplies electromechanical equipment for Ebensee pumped storage power plant?

International technology group ANDRITZ, a leading company in the field of energy and environmental technologies, has received an order from the Upper Austrian utility Energie AG to supply the electromechanical equipment for the new Ebensee pumped storage power plant.

How pumped storage plant is a green battery?

The advanced pumped storage plant will act as a green battery by balancing fluctuations in power generation from wind and solar plants, thus ensuring security of supply for the population. It takes advantage of the topography to store energy and make it available whenever needed.

What is a pumped storage power plant?

Pumped storage power plants currently represent the most efficient method of storing large amounts of energy for extended periods of time. They therefore play a key role in the clean energy transition.

What is a pumped storage power plant (PSPP)?

Did you know? • Pumped Storage Power Plants (PSPP), the world’s ‘water battery’, accounts for over 94 per cent of installed global energy storage capacity and retains several advantages such as lifetime cost, levels of sustainability and scale.

What is a storage power plant project?

The storage power plant project, another storage lake and a pumped storage power plant are being built as the second upper stage of the existing Sellrain-Silz power plant group. With this upper stage, the overall efficiency of the power plant group in electricity generation can be sustainably increased.

Which energy sources are used in kopswerk II?

The remaining three percent is produced by renewable energy sources such as the wind, sun and biomass. For Kopswerk II, Voith supplied three complete sets of equipment consisting of storage pumps, each with 150 MW of pumping power and spherical valves.