Discover the Chastang hydroelectric power station by entering the heart of the engine room !! And extend the visit to the EDF du Chastang area!

Découvrez le barrage et la centrale hydroélectrique.

The most powerful plant in Haute-Savoie, it turbines the water from the Arve retained by the Les Houches dam.

barrage poids sur la Vienne

Centrale mise en service en 1930, 3 groupes de turbines Francis vertical de puissance 13,5 MW

Centrale mise en service en 1930, 3 groupes de turbines Francis vertical de puissance 13,5 MW

Centrale mise en service en 1930, 3 groupes de turbines Francis vertical de puissance 13,5 MW

Centrale mise en service en 1930, 3 groupes de turbines Francis vertical de puissance 13,5 MW

Centrale mise en service en 1930, 3 groupes de turbines Francis vertical de puissance 13,5 MW

Centrale mise en service en 1930, 3 groupes de turbines Francis vertical de puissance 13,5 MW

Centrale mise en service en 1930, 3 groupes de turbines Francis vertical de puissance 13,5 MW

Centrale mise en service en 1930, 3 groupes de turbines Francis vertical de puissance 13,5 MW

Centrale mise en service en 1977, 3 groupes de turbines Kaplan horizontal de puissance 8 MW

Centrale mise en service en 1977, 3 groupes de turbines Kaplan horizontal de puissance 8 MW

Centrale mise en service en 1977, 3 groupes de turbines Kaplan horizontal de puissance 8 MW

Centrale mise en service en 1977, 3 groupes de turbines Kaplan horizontal de puissance 8 MW

Centrale mise en service en 1977, 3 groupes de turbines Kaplan horizontal de puissance 8 MW

Centrale mise en service en 1977, 3 groupes de turbines Kaplan horizontal de puissance 8 MW

Centrale mise en service en 1977, 3 groupes de turbines Kaplan horizontal de puissance 8 MW

Centrale mise en service en 1977, 3 groupes de turbines Kaplan horizontal de puissance 8 MW

Gravity dam on the Maulde

Barrage à voûtes multiples

Barrage à voûtes multiples

Barrage à voûtes multiples

Barrage à voûtes multiples

Barrage à voûtes multiples

Barrage à voûtes multiples

Barrage à voûtes multiples

Barrage à voûtes multiples

Centrale mise en service en 1984, 3 groupes de turbines Kaplan horizontal de puissance 6,3MW

Centrale mise en service en 1984, 3 groupes de turbines Kaplan horizontal de puissance 6,3MW

Centrale mise en service en 1984, 3 groupes de turbines Kaplan horizontal de puissance 6,3MW

Centrale mise en service en 1984, 3 groupes de turbines Kaplan horizontal de puissance 6,3MW

Centrale mise en service en 1984, 3 groupes de turbines Kaplan horizontal de puissance 6,3MW

Centrale mise en service en 1984, 3 groupes de turbines Kaplan horizontal de puissance 6,3MW

Centrale mise en service en 1984, 3 groupes de turbines Kaplan horizontal de puissance 6,3MW

Centrale mise en service en 1984, 3 groupes de turbines Kaplan horizontal de puissance 6,3MW

Centrale mise en service en 1921, 4 groupes turbine à hélice vertical et 1 groupe de turbine Kaplan vertical de puissance 8,7 MW

Centrale mise en service en 1921, 4 groupes turbine à hélice vertical et 1 groupe de turbine Kaplan vertical de puissance 8,7 MW

Centrale mise en service en 1921, 4 groupes turbine à hélice vertical et 1 groupe de turbine Kaplan vertical de puissance 8,7 MW

Centrale mise en service en 1921, 4 groupes turbine à hélice vertical et 1 groupe de turbine Kaplan vertical de puissance 8,7 MW

Centrale mise en service en 1921, 4 groupes turbine à hélice vertical et 1 groupe de turbine Kaplan vertical de puissance 8,7 MW

Centrale mise en service en 1921, 4 groupes turbine à hélice vertical et 1 groupe de turbine Kaplan vertical de puissance 8,7 MW

Centrale mise en service en 1921, 4 groupes turbine à hélice vertical et 1 groupe de turbine Kaplan vertical de puissance 8,7 MW

Centrale mise en service en 1921, 4 groupes turbine à hélice vertical et 1 groupe de turbine Kaplan vertical de puissance 8,7 MW

The AMBIALET power station is located on the Tarn river. It uses a drop height of 7 m. It is equipped with 2 production groups making it possible to produce the electricity needed by 6,700 people each year.

Centrale mise en service en 1932, 3 groupes de turbines Francis horizontal de puissance 8,75 MW

Centrale mise en service en 1932, 3 groupes de turbines Francis horizontal de puissance 8,75 MW

Centrale mise en service en 1932, 3 groupes de turbines Francis horizontal de puissance 8,75 MW

Centrale mise en service en 1932, 3 groupes de turbines Francis horizontal de puissance 8,75 MW

Centrale mise en service en 1932, 3 groupes de turbines Francis horizontal de puissance 8,75 MW

Centrale mise en service en 1932, 3 groupes de turbines Francis horizontal de puissance 8,75 MW

Centrale mise en service en 1932, 3 groupes de turbines Francis horizontal de puissance 8,75 MW

Centrale mise en service en 1932, 3 groupes de turbines Francis horizontal de puissance 8,75 MW

The TECH power station is located on the Le Tech watercourse. It operates a drop height of 124 m. It is equipped with 3 production groups making it possible to produce the electricity needed by 3,900 people each year.

This power station turbines the water coming from the Roselend, St Guérin and La Gittaz dams. Its public information center allows it to welcome groups and schools to introduce them to hydroelectricity.

The SAINTE-MARIE power station is located on the Gave d'Aspe watercourse. It uses a drop height of 4 m. It is equipped with 2 production groups making it possible to produce the electricity needed by 1,200 people each year.

Mobile dam (height 19.3 m and length 105 m) on the Dordogne river. Impounded in 1908.

The GOLFECH power station is located on the Garonne river. It uses a fall height of 17 m. It is equipped with 3 production groups making it possible to produce the electricity needed by 143,000 people each year.

Barrage poids sur la rivière Bromme

Centrale mise en service en 1985, 3 groupes de turbines Kaplan horizontal de puissance 6,8 MW

Centrale mise en service en 1985, 3 groupes de turbines Kaplan horizontal de puissance 6,8 MW

Centrale mise en service en 1985, 3 groupes de turbines Kaplan horizontal de puissance 6,8 MW

Centrale mise en service en 1985, 3 groupes de turbines Kaplan horizontal de puissance 6,8 MW

Centrale mise en service en 1985, 3 groupes de turbines Kaplan horizontal de puissance 6,8 MW

Centrale mise en service en 1985, 3 groupes de turbines Kaplan horizontal de puissance 6,8 MW

Centrale mise en service en 1985, 3 groupes de turbines Kaplan horizontal de puissance 6,8 MW

Centrale mise en service en 1985, 3 groupes de turbines Kaplan horizontal de puissance 6,8 MW

The POUGET power station is located on the Tarn river. It operates a drop height of 461 m. It is equipped with 5 production groups making it possible to produce the electricity needed by nearly 123,600 people each year.

The Saint-Aignan plant, installed on the Blavet river in Brittany, operates at a drop height of 6.3m. Each year, its single alternator group produces the equivalent of the electricity consumption of 180 homes (installed power of 0.48MW).

The Saint-Aignan plant, installed on the Blavet river in Brittany, operates at a drop height of 6.3m. Each year, its single alternator group produces the equivalent of the electricity consumption of 180 homes (installed power of 0.48MW).

The Guerlédan dam is located in the municipality of Mûr-En-Bretagne on the Blavet river. Each year, thanks to these 4 generator groups and its drop height of 46m, the Guerlédan power plant can produce the equivalent of the electricity consumption of 5700 homes.

Commissioning: 1930 dam – 1929 plant
Height of the dam: 45m
Length of dam: 206m
Installed capacity: 15MW

The Guerlédan dam is located in the municipality of Mûr-En-Bretagne on the Blavet river. Each year, thanks to these 4 generator groups and its drop height of 46m, the Guerlédan power plant can produce the equivalent of the electricity consumption of 5700 homes.

Commissioning: 1930 dam – 1929 plant
Height of the dam: 45m
Length of dam: 206m
Installed capacity: 15MW

The facility is a pumped-storage energy transfer station that generates electricity when consumption peaks and pumps the water to a higher lake to replenish a stock of available energy.

These plants produce hydroelectricity using water from the Drac until its confluence with the Isère in the heart of the metropolis of Grenoble.

The Romanche-Gavet project, the largest hydropower development project led by EDF in France, will replace this chain of dams and power plants with new underground development, better secure and more efficient.

Installed on the course of the Isère, these five hydroelectric power plant produce electricity over the water.

The PORTILLON power station is located on the Neste d'Oo watercourse. It operates from a drop height of 1270 m. It is equipped with 1 production unit making it possible to produce the electricity needed by nearly 27,400 people each year.

Mobile dam at the confluence of the Verdon and the Durance, flooded in 1961, 15 m high and 152 m long. Reservoir of 3 million m³ of water, area of ​​825,000 m².

Lake power station supplied with water by the Durance canal, commissioned in 1975. Drop height of 116 m.
Each year, it produces the electricity needed by 292,900 people.

Gravity dam commissioned in 1959, 123.5 m high and 600 m long. Retention of 1,2 billion m³ of water, area of 27,6 km². 

Power station supplied with water by the Durance, commissioned in 1960. Drop height of 126 m.
Each year, it produces the electricity needed by 291,200 people.

Gravity dam commissioned in 1959, 123.5 m high and 600 m long. Retention of 1,2 billion m³ of water, area of 27,6 km². 

Power station supplied with water by the Durance, commissioned in 1960. Drop height of 126 m.
Each year, it produces the electricity needed by 291,200 people.

Gravity dam commissioned in 1959, 123.5 m high and 600 m long. Retention of 1,2 billion m³ of water, area of 27,6 km². 

Power station supplied with water by the Durance, commissioned in 1960. Drop height of 126 m.
Each year, it produces the electricity needed by 291,200 people.

Gravity dam commissioned in 1959, 123.5 m high and 600 m long. Retention of 1,2 billion m³ of water, area of 27,6 km². 

Power station supplied with water by the Durance, commissioned in 1960. Drop height of 126 m.
Each year, it produces the electricity needed by 291,200 people.

Lake power station supplied with water by the Durance canal, commissioned in 1922. Drop height of 38.5 m.
Each year, it produces the electricity needed by 62,000 people.

Arch dam flooded in 1973:

• 93m high
• 138m long
• Reservoir of 761 million m³ of water
• Area of ​​22 km²

Lake power station supplied by the Verdon, commissioned in 1974:

• Fall height of 78 m
• Each year, it produces the electricity needed by 51,400 people.

Arch dam flooded in 1973:

• 93m high
• 138m long
• Reservoir of 761 million m³ of water
• Area of ​​22 km²

Lake power station supplied by the Verdon, commissioned in 1974:

• Fall height of 78 m
• Each year, it produces the electricity needed by 51,400 people.

Arch dam flooded in 1973:

• 93m high
• 138m long
• Reservoir of 761 million m³ of water
• Area of ​​22 km²

Lake power station supplied by the Verdon, commissioned in 1974:

• Fall height of 78 m
• Each year, it produces the electricity needed by 51,400 people.

Arch dam flooded in 1973:

• 93m high
• 138m long
• Reservoir of 761 million m³ of water
• Area of ​​22 km²

Lake power station supplied by the Verdon, commissioned in 1974:

• Fall height of 78 m
• Each year, it produces the electricity needed by 51,400 people.

Lake power station supplied with water by the Durance canal, commissioned in 1966. Fall height of 71.5 m.
Each year, it produces the electricity needed by 70,000 people.

Power station supplied with water by the Durance canal, commissioned in 1962. Fall height of 85.5 m.
Each year, it produces the electricity needed by 275,500 people

Mobile dam on the Durance, flooded in 1964, 8 m high and 280 m long. Retention of 100,000 m³ of water. It supplies the Durance EDF canal and the Mallemort power station.

Run-of-river power plant located on the Durance river. Commissioned in 1973. Fall height of 175.6 m. Each year, it produces the electricity needed by 68,600 people.

Arch dam flooded in 1952, 57 m high and 95 m long. Reservoir of 16 million m³ of water, area of 0.6 km².
Lake power station supplied by the Verdon, commissioned in 1953. Fall height of 70 m. Each year, it produces the electricity needed by 18,200 people.

Arch dam put in water in 1948:

• 95m high 
• 200m long
• Retention of 149 million m³ of water
• Area of ​​5 km²

Lake power station supplied by the Verdon, commissioned in 1948:

• Fall height of 90 m
• Each year, it produces the electricity needed by 29,200 people.

Arch dam put in water in 1948:

• 95m high 
• 200m long
• Retention of 149 million m³ of water
• Area of ​​5 km²

Lake power station supplied by the Verdon, commissioned in 1948:

• Fall height of 90 m
• Each year, it produces the electricity needed by 29,200 people.

Arch dam put in water in 1948:

• 95m high 
• 200m long
• Retention of 149 million m³ of water
• Area of ​​5 km²

Lake power station supplied by the Verdon, commissioned in 1948:

• Fall height of 90 m
• Each year, it produces the electricity needed by 29,200 people.

Arch dam put in water in 1948:

• 95m high 
• 200m long
• Retention of 149 million m³ of water
• Area of ​​5 km²

Lake power station supplied by the Verdon, commissioned in 1948:

• Fall height of 90 m
• Each year, it produces the electricity needed by 29,200 people.

Dam-factory installed on the Rhône.

Dam-factory installed on the Rhône.

The Chaumeçon facilities (dam and power station) are located in the municipality of Saint Martin du Puy on the Chalaux river. The power plant operates a drop height of 38m. Its unique generator group allows it to produce the equivalent of the power consumption of 700 homes.

• Commissioning: 1934 (dam) – 1961 (generating station)
• Height of the dam: 35m 
• Length of dam: 196m 
• Installed capacity: 1.5MW

 

Located in the town of Domecy-Sur-Cure on the La Cure stream, the Bois-De-Paint power plant has a fall height of 97m. Each year, with its three generator groups, it produces the equivalent of the electricity consumption of around 9,000 households. Installed power: 25.5MW.

A unique hydraulic discovery area in the Lot valley and the Truyère gorges. 

The Strasbourg power station is a so-called "run-of-the-river" development. Commissioned in 1970, it is equipped with 6 production groups. Associated with the other hydroelectric installations on the Rhine, it makes it possible to produce the electricity necessary for half of Alsace.

The NENTILLA power station is located on the Aude river. It operates a drop height of 526 m. It is equipped with 2 production groups making it possible to produce the electricity needed by 51,600 people each year.

The Kembs power station is a so-called "run-of-river" development. Commissioned in 1932, it is equipped with 6 production units. Associated with the other hydroelectric installations on the Rhine, it makes it possible to produce the electricity necessary for half of Alsace.

Locked power station on the Roya river, supplied with water by the Mesce dam, commissioned in 1914. It has a head of 720 m.
Every year, it produces the electricity needed by 48,800 people.

The facilities (dam and power station) are located in the municipality of Tenneron on the Biançon river. The power station has a head of 112 m. 

Each year, its facilities produce the equivalent of the electricity consumption of 7,000 homes (installed capacity of 20.4 MW).

The facilities (dam and power station) are located in the municipality of Tenneron on the Biançon river. The power station has a head of 112 m. 

Each year, its facilities produce the equivalent of the electricity consumption of 7,000 homes (installed capacity of 20.4 MW).

The facilities (dam and power station) are located in the municipality of Tenneron on the Biançon river. The power station has a head of 112 m. 

Each year, its facilities produce the equivalent of the electricity consumption of 7,000 homes (installed capacity of 20.4 MW).

The facilities (dam and power station) are located in the municipality of Tenneron on the Biançon river. The power station has a head of 112 m. 

Each year, its facilities produce the equivalent of the electricity consumption of 7,000 homes (installed capacity of 20.4 MW).

Run-of-river power plant on the Loup, commissioned in 1902. Fall height of 262.5 m.
Each year, it produces the electricity needed by 9,800 people.

Run-of-river power plant on the Var, commissioned in 1905. Drop height of 36.5 m.
Each year, it produces the electricity needed by 16,800 people

Locked power plant on the Vésubie, supplied with water by the Boréon dam and the Gordolasque, commissioned in 1960. Fall height of 731 m.
Each year, it produces the electricity needed by 62,000 people.

The ASTON power station is located on the Aston watercourse. It operates a drop height of 519 m. It is equipped with 4 production groups making it possible to produce the electricity needed by 139,500 people each year.

The MONTAHUT power station is located on the Vèbre / Agoût stream. It operates a drop height of 621 m. It is equipped with 2 production groups making it possible to produce the electricity needed by 90,900 people each year.

Commissioned in 1968, the Vouglans dam is the third largest water reservoir in France. Associated with the 5 other hydroelectric installations located on the Ain river, it makes it possible to produce the electricity necessary to supply a department like the Jura in winter.

Commissioned in 1943, the Liebvillers power station is equipped with 4 “Francis” type production units. Along with the 5 other hydroelectric facilities located on the Doubs river, it produces the electricity needed by 110,000 households.

Commissioned in 1960, the Allement plant is equipped with 2 “Kaplan” type production units. Associated with the 5 other hydroelectric installations located on the Ain river, it makes it possible to produce the electricity necessary to supply a department like the Jura in winter.

The Revin development is a Pumping Energy Transfer Station. Commissioned in 1976, it can reach a maximum power of 800 MW in 2 minutes. It is the 3rd WWTP in France in terms of its installed capacity.

Arch dam spilling onto the Altier river

Gravity dam spilling onto the Cher river.

Gravity dam with 3 drainage gates on the Allier river.

2 Pelton turbines - 138 MW of installed capacity

Rockfill gravity dam on the Sioule river.

Arch dam (height 54 m, length 203 m)

Installed capacity : 5MW

Installed capacity : 4MW

Installed capacity : 24MW

Installed capacity : 17 MW

Installed capacity : 1 MW

installed capacity : 82MW

Installed capacity : 1MW

Installed capacity : 1MW

Installed capacity : 117MW

Installed capacity : 55MW

installed capacity : 9MW

Installed capacity : 16 MW

installed capacity : 20 MW

installed capacity : 39 MW

Installed capacity : 32 MW

installed capacity : 12 MW

installed capacity : 15 MW