Kolnbrein Dam

The Kolnbrein Dam is an arch dam inside the Hohe Tauern variety within Carinthia, Austria. It became built among 1971 and 1979 and at 2 hundred metres excessive, it's far the tallest dam in Austria. The dam's reservoir serves because the number one storage in a three-stage pumped-storage power machine that includes 9 dams, 4 hydroelectric energy plants and a sequence of pipeline and penstocks. The complex is owned by Verbund power agency and is known as the Malta-Reisseck Power Plant Group.

The mounted capacity of the organization is 1,028.5 MW and its annual era is 1,216 gigawatt-hours. While the dam's reservoir become filling, several cracks regarded inside the dam and it took more than a decade of maintenance before the reservoir ought to operate at most tiers. Currently, the Reisseck II pumped-storage energy plant is under creation and will efficaciously join each the Malta and Reisseck companies and add a further 430 MW of production capability.