The Botnur power plant ( fo, Elektrisitetsverkið í Botni) is a hydroelectric

power station A power station, also referred to as a power plant and sometimes generating station or generating plant, is an industrial facility for the generation of electric power. Power stations are generally connected to an electrical grid. Many ...

supplying the

Faroe Islands The Faroe Islands ( ), or simply the Faroes ( fo, Føroyar ; da, Færøerne ), are a North Atlantic island group and an autonomous territory of the Kingdom of Denmark. They are located north-northwest of Scotland, and about halfway bet ...

' southernmost island of Suðuroy with electricity. It is located to the north of

Vágur Vágur meaning ''Bay'' ( da, Våg) is a town on the island of Suðuroy, part of the Faroe Islands It is situated on the east coast of the island on the Vágsfjørður fjord, and was founded in the fourteenth century. Expansion has meant that the ...

. Botnur was the first hydroelectric plant built in the Faroes. The plant was built by the municipality of Vágur, partly to power the ship cableway in

Vágseiði Vágseiði is an area in Vágur, Faroe Islands, located on the west coast of Suðuroy west of the village Vágur, from which it takes its name. ''Eiði'' is the Faroese word for ''isthmus''. The distance between the east and the west coast of Vá ...

. It became operational on 18 July 1921. In 1960, the plant was acquired by SEV from ''Suðuroyar Elverk''. The plant is equipped with two turbines. One is a 1.1 MW

Pelton turbine The Pelton wheel or Pelton Turbine is an impulse-type water turbine invented by American inventor Lester Allan Pelton in the 1870s. The Pelton wheel extracts energy from the impulse of moving water, as opposed to water's dead weight like the tra ...

, commissioned in 1965, and it is supplied by water from the Ryskivatn lake, which is again supplied by the Miðvatn lake at 345m altitude, holding 550,000 m³ of water. The other is a 2.2 MW Francis turbine, commissioned in 1966, supplied from the

Vatnsnes Vatnsnes () is a peninsula jutting into Húnaflói in northern Iceland. It is surrounded by waters of Miðfjörður on the west and Húnafjörður on the east. It is home to one of the largest seal colonies in Iceland, among others at Hindisv ...

lake (Vatnsnesvatn) at 177m altitude, holding 725,000 m³ of water. Botnur is an unmanned plant; it is operated from the Vágsverkið (also called Heimaru Oyrar) power plant.

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