The Kastraki Dam is an earth-fill
embankment dam on the
Achelous River
The Achelous ( el, Αχελώος, grc, Ἀχελῷος ''Akhelôios''), also Acheloos, is a river in western Greece. It is long. It formed the boundary between Acarnania and Aetolia of antiquity. It empties into the Ionian Sea. In ancien ...
near the village of Kastraki in
Aitoloakarnania, Greece. It was completed in 1969 for the purposes of
hydroelectric power generator, flood control and irrigation. The dam's power station houses four 80 MW
Francis turbine-generators for an installed capacity of 320 MW.
[ In 2010 the dam's overflow chute ]spillway
A spillway is a structure used to provide the controlled release of water downstream from a dam or levee, typically into the riverbed of the dammed river itself. In the United Kingdom, they may be known as overflow channels. Spillways ensure th ...
was upgraded with 20 fuse plugs which increased the maximum height of the Lake Kastraki reservoir by and its storage capacity by .
Terna plans the 680 MW / 5,872 MWh Amphilochia pumped-storage hydroelectricity facility, using Kastraki as the lower reservoir, and a 5 million cubic metre and a 2 million cubic metre as upper reservoirs.
See also
* Energy in Greece
In physics, energy (from Ancient Greek: ἐνέργεια, ''enérgeia'', “activity”) is the quantitative property that is transferred to a body or to a physical system, recognizable in the performance of work and in the form of hea ...
* Renewable energy in Greece
References
{{Achelous River dams
Dams in Greece
Hydroelectric power stations in Greece
Earth-filled dams
Dams completed in 1969
Dams on the Achelous River
Buildings and structures in Aetolia-Acarnania
1969 establishments in Greece
Energy infrastructure completed in 1969
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