Pumped-storage hydro · grid battery
Frades II (Venda Nova III)
operatingPortugal · lower reservoir on the Cávado
- Turbine capacity
- 736 MW
- Energy storage
- -
- Gross head
- -
- First unit
- 2017
Two 368 MW variable-speed sets - among Europe's largest such machines - on the same Rabagão-Cávado drop as Frades I
Nameplate figures and coordinates: EDP announcement · 41.6948, -8.0248