La Jourdanie is a barrage and hydroelectric power station on the
River Tarn in
Broquiès
Broquiès (; oc, Broquièrs) is a Communes of France, commune in the Aveyron Departments of France, department in southern France.
Geography
The commune is in the Raspes de Tarn; on both banks of the river Tarn (river), Tarn. The village is ...
in
Aveyron
Aveyron (; oc, Avairon; ) is a department in the region of Occitania, Southern France. It was named after the river Aveyron. Its inhabitants are known as ''Aveyronnais'' (masculine) or ''Aveyronnaises'' (feminine) in French. The inhabitants o ...
, southern
France
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.
The barrage was built in 1932, and the station has two
Kaplan turbine
The Kaplan turbine is a propeller-type water turbine which has adjustable blades. It was developed in 1913 by Austrian professor Viktor Kaplan, who combined automatically adjusted propeller blades with automatically adjusted wicket gates to ach ...
s and two
helical turbines generating . The dam is long and high.
Hydrelect info: Jourdanie
in French, accessed 2012-09-26
See also
*Le Pouget (power station)
Le Pouget is a hydroelectric power station located at Le Truel, on the River Tarn, in the department of Aveyron in France. It uses the difference in height between the artificial lakes of Villefranche-de-Panat and Pareloup on the Lévézou platea ...
*Renewable energy in France
Under its commitment to the EU renewable energy directive of 2009, France has a target of producing 23% of its total energy needs from renewable energy by 2020. This figure breaks down to renewable energy providing 33% of energy used in the heati ...
References
External links
Hydroweb Pouget
in French
Dams completed in 1932
Energy infrastructure completed in 1932
Buildings and structures in Aveyron
Hydroelectric power stations in France
Dams in France
Run-of-the-river power stations
20th-century architecture in France
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