At the Department of Hydraulic Engineering of the Technische Universität München an innovative hydropower concept was developed; the "Shaft Power Plant," in which the power plant unit is located entirely under water in a shaft and the turbine water supply is carried out via a horizontal intake plane. The system requires only a low building volume and has in particular environmental benefits given the integration of a convincing fish protection and migration passage in the hydraulic design. For larger sites, the system “multishaft power plant” was conceived.     «

At the Department of Hydraulic Engineering of the Technische Universität München an innovative hydropower concept was developed; the "Shaft Power Plant," in which the power plant unit is located entirely under water in a shaft and the turbine water supply is carried out via a horizontal intake plane. The system requires only a low building volume and has in particular environmental benefits given the integration of a convincing fish protection and migration passage in the hydraulic design. For...     »