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Ponale Hydroelectric Power Plant ( it, Centrale idroelettrica del Ponale) is a pumped storage plant, located in city of
Ponale Hydroelectric Power Plant ( it, Centrale idroelettrica del Ponale) is a pumped storage plant, located in city of Riva del Garda
Riva del Garda (''Rìva'' in local dialect) is a town and ''comune'' in the northern Italian province of Trento of the Trentino Alto Adige region. It is also known simply as ''Riva'' and is located at the northern tip of Lake Garda.
History
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in the Italian
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province of Trentino
Trentino ( lld, Trentin), officially the Autonomous Province of Trento, is an autonomous province of Italy, in the country's far north. The Trentino and South Tyrol constitute the region of Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol, an autonomous region ...
, on River Ponale between Lake Ledro
Lago di Ledro is a lake in Trentino, northern Italy. The lake is at an elevation of , and its surface area is .
Lake Ledro is reputed to be one of the cleanest lakes in Trentino, and during the summer it reaches a temperature of , attracting touri ...
and Lake Garda
Lake Garda ( it, Lago di Garda or ; lmo, label=Eastern Lombard, Lach de Garda; vec, Ƚago de Garda; la, Benacus; grc, Βήνακος) is the largest lake in Italy.
It is a popular holiday location in northern Italy, about halfway between ...
. Its output capability is 76MW.
The station was built in 1928-1929 and, following rework of the pipes, underwent overhaul in 1998.
From Lake Ledro, the water is ducted several kilometers to penstocks
A penstock is a sluice or gate or intake structure that controls water flow, or an enclosed pipe that delivers water to hydro turbines and sewerage systems. The term is inherited from the earlier technology of mill ponds and watermills.
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at a point (close to the Chiesa di Santa Barbara) almost directly above the power station buildings and machinery at Riva del Garda; from here it falls on a gradient approaching 3:1 to the turbines.
The station is known by the world record in high-rise concrete pumping during the reconstruction in 1994. The achieved record was 532m.; it was beaten only during construction of Burj Khalifa
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During construction of the plant, there was discovered the remains of a Bronze Age pile-dwelling village (over 10 000 piles) on the east of the Lake Ledro.
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Energy infrastructure completed in 1929 Buildings and structures in Trentino Hydroelectric power stations in Italy Pumped-storage hydroelectric power stations in Italy {{hydroelectric-power-plant-stub