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BREIVIKELVA,

Additional power for After completion of Breivikelva in 2021, it will provide an additional 27 GWh of renewable At the beginning of 2019, ANDRITZ Hydro energy per year to the Norwegian grid. This was awarded a contract for the develop- corresponds to the electricity consumption ment of the Breivikelva hydropower plant of about 1,360 households. in the municipality in Norway. The owner is Kraftsamband AS The contract is a “from water-to-wire” (SKS), a private limited company owned complete solution and includes a verti- by municipal authorities in the county of cal Pelton generating unit with 9.9 MW , together with the energy com- capacity, generator, automation, electri- panies Bodø Energi AS and Jämtkraft AB cal power system, transformer, main inlet (SWE). Stein Mørtsell, CEO of SKS Produk- valve, inlet pipes and auxiliaries. sjon AS, states that the power develop- ment is positive for SKS and is in line with their strategy for increased production of hydropower. The project is also a good TECHNICAL DETAILS case for the Beiarn municipality with Total output: 10.3 MW regard to local effects and the activity the Scope: 1 × 10.3 MW project will bring. Head: 269.9 m

Speed: 500 rpm AUTHOR Runner diameter: 1,340 mm Kristian Glemmestad © Kjetil Skogen [email protected]

TECHNICAL DETAILS Total output: 24 MW Scope: 3 × 8 MW Head: 219 m Runner diameter: 740 mm

mechanical package, balance of electri- cal package and the entire automation system of the hydropower plant. Our team has elaborated a complex package and good cooperation with the customer dur- ing the development phase made this SELTI MUSRANG, INDIA project a benchmark for Compact Hydro. ANDRITZ Hydro has again proved itself the Benchmark project for Compact Hydro via a crested-type diversion weir. This flow market leader by offering the best techni- will subsequently pass through a power cal solution for this project. ANDRITZ Hydro has received an order for tunnel and up to an underground forebay the small run-of-river hydropower plant where it leads to an underground power- The duration for the completion of the Selti Musrang on the river Bhaba Khad in house through a surface penstock. It will project is 24 months from the commence- Himachal Pradesh from the private devel- feed three horizontal Francis turbines driving ment date starting June 2019. oper Ramesh Hydro Private Limited. generating units rated at 8,000 kW each.

The scheme envisages a diversion of the ANDRITZ Hydro's scope of supply is a AUTHOR Bhaba Khad inflow through a conveyance complete “from water-to-wire” solution Swarnkar Abhishek

channel / tunnel to a surface desilting tank including turbines, generators, balance of [email protected] HYDRO MINI & SMALL