Small hydro power plant of Sonceboz "Sous les Roches"
   
Object Low head run-of-river power plant
Location Sonceboz, Switzerland BE
River Suze
Owner: Turbinor SA, Sonceboz (CH)
   
Project status: Project completed
   
Concept:  
Intake Including a mechanical weir gate, sluice gates for flushing, flow control and maintenance purpose, a gross screen, a screen with rack cleaning machine. Vertical slot fish stairs
Penstock Penstock built in GRP, dia. 1500mm; total length = 465m
Powerhouse 1x Turbine Kaplan S horizontal double-regulated, dia. 1000 mm [HYDROHROM SK1000]. Synchronous generator 400V, 441 kVA [TES Vsetin] directly coupled to the turbine
   
Characteristics:  
Gross head 11.6 m
Nominal turbine flow 5 m3/s
Nominal power 370 kW
Yearly production 1.8 GWh
   
Realization:  
Construction start March 2005
Commercial operation October 2005
   
Engineering office Turbinor SA, Sonceboz (CH)
Civil engineering office P.-A. Niederhaeuser SA, Bévilard (CH)
Civil works Charly Huguelet, Tavannes (CH)
Construction company Annoni SA, Bévilard (CH)
Supplier for equipment at the intake Hydrohrom s.r.o. Bystrice (CZ)
Supplier of the penstock PlastiteCH, Eysins (CH)
Supplier of the turbine equipment Hydrohrom s.r.o. Bystrice (CZ)
 
Das Kleinkraftwerk / La Petite Centrale No.62 1/2006
Hydropower & Dams. Volume Thirteen. Issue 2.2006
 
 
 

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