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Denmark's biggest hydroelectric power plant

By Jytte Thorndahl, Museumsinspektør, mag. art., Elmuseet (4 stories)

Tangeværket is Denmark's biggest hydroelectric power plant and was built after the energy crisis during the First World War. The plant went on stream in 1921, and in the 1920s generated more than 20 per cent of the whole of Jutland's electricity. The plant…

Tangeværket is Denmark's biggest hydroelectric power plant and was built after the energy crisis during the First World War. The plant went on stream in 1921, and in the 1920s generated more than 20 per cent of the whole of Jutland's electricity. The plant is located by Denmark's longest watercourse, the Gudenå river, and six kilometres from Bjerringbro, near the village of Tange, from which the plant takes its name. From a head of 10.5 metres, the water drives three large water turbines, water wheels, and the three generators which output the electricity. The plant is owned by a cooperative society and generates an average of 11 million kilowatts of electricity annually. This is the equivalent of the annual electricity consumption of around 3,000 households. Elmuseet, the Electricity Museum, is located by the Tangeværket plant.

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