Pumped storage power station
News: 20.12.2012 07:00
The transfer of 15 percent of the share capital in the Nant de Drance SA project company from Alpiq to IWB has been successfully finalised between the partners.
News: 07.09.2012 11:45
With yesterday’s completion of the drilling of the access tunnel to the future Nant de Drance pumped storage power station in Châtelard (canton of Vaud, VS), the partners of this project − Alpiq, the Swiss Federal Railways (SBB), and FMV – have achieved an important milestone. Hence an underground connection now exists between the lower and upper ...
News: 11.07.2012 11:30
Almost two years after arriving in Châtelard (Valais), tunnel workers prepare to cut through the last metres of the access tunnel to the future pumped storage power plant of Nant de Drance. This stage, which is on the verge of being completed, is all-important for Alpiq, the CFF and the Forces Motrices Valaisannes (FMV) – the three partners that ...
News: 24.02.2012 10:30
2012 promises to be a busy year at the Nant de Drance construction site. Tunnelling will be completed in the summer, while excavation of the main cavern will continue. Work on raising the Vieux Emosson dam is scheduled to begin in late spring. Over 250 people will be working at the construction site in 2012.
News: 06.02.2012 10:30
For the first time in its almost 40-year history, Lac d'Emosson in the canton of Valais will be drained dry between February and May 2012 in order to carry out maintenance work on the installations which are normally submerged. This is the first time the reservoir has been drained since being filled in 1973. A compatibility study has been ...
News: 05.07.2011 07:00
While the construction work on the pumped storage power station Nant de Drance
is in progress, the Board of Directors of the company Nant de Drance SA has definitively given the green light for the extension of the facility. Its power will thus be increased from 600 MW to 900 MW with the addition of two further turbine sets and the raising of the ...
News: 07.04.2011 14:30
Forces Motrices Hongrin-Léman SA (FMHL) this morning began construction work on the new power plant in Veytaux at a foundation stone-laying ceremony attended by the authorities of the cantons of Vaud and Fribourg and the municipality. The ceremony officially launched the construction site of the new underground power plant which will enable the ...
News: 07.02.2011 18:00
On 20 December 2010 Forces Motrices Hongrin-Léman SA (FMHL) was granted a construction permit for the FMHL+ project. The project aims to install two additional turbine groups in an underground cavern near Veytaux power station to increase the installed capacity from 240 to 480 Megawatts, of which 60 Megawatts will be used as reserve power. This ...
News: 10.11.2009 10:30
As part of the construction of the underground pumped storage power station between the Emosson and Vieux-Emosson dams, Nant de Drance SA is examining the possibility of increasing the installed capacity from 600 to 900 MW. The main reason is the growing need for control and peak energies, and the increase in capacity would also involve the ...
News: 30.06.2009 14:00
A groundbreaking ceremony held on Tuesday 30 June, 2009, marked the start of construction work on the Nant de Drance pumped storage power station in the Valais municipality of Finhaut. The festivities were attended by more than 100 guests, including Alpiq CEO Giovanni Leonardi, SBB CEO Andreas Meyer and Walter Steinmann, Director of the Federal ...
News: 15.06.2009 12:00
At its General Meeting on 12 June 2009, the Valais Electricity Company FMV SA decided to participate in Nant de Drance SA. This Project Company is responsible for the construction of the new pumped storage power station in the lower Valais. Participants in the company are Alpiq, new with 54 percent, the Swiss Railways SBB, new with 36 percent and ...
