Älvkarleby kraftverk
Also known as Älvkarleby Hydroelectric Power Station
1911
National Romantic
power plant
Dark red hand-molded brick, steep roofs and heavy masses give Älvkarleby kraftverk the bearing of a medieval castle. Erik Josephson designed the whole plant at the last falls of the Dalälven, eight kilometers from the river mouth, for the…
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- 1911
Erik Josephson
- 1988-1991
A second power station was built beside the original one and taken into service in 1991. It houses a single vertical Kaplan turbine, so the added capacity sits in a separate structure and the older station was left standing rather than…
- 1990
All the dams of the plant were replaced with new ones set in roughly the same positions. The concrete of the original dams had leached badly, so the structures were rebuilt rather than repaired, and the layout of the water system was kept…
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