Due to historically low prices for electricity in Sweden, many small-scale hydropowerplants were closed down. A small-scale power plant has more or less the samemaintenance costs as larger plants, but doesn’t generate as much income. Today’sincreasing price for electricity in combination with a desire for renewable energysources makes small-scale hydropower interesting again. The sawmill in Venås is afacility of that kind. During the 1920´s two Francis turbines were installed as powersource for the machinery and a small private DC-grid. In 1966 the dam collapsed andthe facility was therefore retired. There is a possibility that the station can once againbe used as a power station to feed electricity to the grid. This will demand a largeamount of work and economic investment. Therefore is both technical andeconomical calculations needed in order to get the facility profitable. This reportincludes such calculations for the Venås station.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:uu-196172 |
| Date | January 2012 |
| Creators | Gillsäter, Ambjörn, Gröndal, Andreas |
| Publisher | Uppsala universitet, Elektricitetslära, Uppsala universitet, Elektricitetslära |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | Swedish |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
| Relation | TVE ; TVE 12 055 oktober |
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