Pumped-storage hydro · grid battery
Grimsel 2
operatingSwitzerland · closed loop, no river attached
- Turbine capacity
- 348 MW
- Energy storage
- -
- Gross head
- 400 m
- First unit
- 1980
KWO's cavern plant between the Oberaarsee and Grimselsee at the Aare headwaters; four ~87 MW sets, one converter-fed
Nameplate figures and coordinates: KWO station page · 46.5679, 8.3169