Dalešice Dam lies on the Jihlava River in the Czech Republic

Czech Republic

The Czech Republic is a landlocked country in Central Europe. The country is bordered by Poland to the northeast, Slovakia to the east, Austria to the south, and Germany to the west and northwest....

. It was built between 1970 and 1978 as a water source for the nearby Dukovany Nuclear Power Station

Dukovany Nuclear Power Station

The Dukovany Nuclear Power Station is a nuclear power plant near Dukovany, a village in the Czech Republic.It was the first NPP in what is now the Czech Republic and is situated 30 km from the city of Třebíč, near Dalešice Dam, where the NPP sources its water supply...

. With nearby Mohelno Dam, it is part of the Dalešice pumped-storage plant

Pumped-storage hydroelectricity

Pumped-storage hydroelectricity is a type of hydroelectric power generation used by some power plants for load balancing. The method stores energy in the form of water, pumped from a lower elevation reservoir to a higher elevation. Low-cost off-peak electric power is used to run the pumps...

. The installed capacity of its Francis turbine

Francis turbine

The Francis turbine is a type of water turbine that was developed by James B. Francis in Lowell, Massachusetts. It is an inward-flow reaction turbine that combines radial and axial flow concepts....

s is 4x120 MW (increased after reconstruction 2007).
The gravity dam is 100 m high (the highest in the Czech Republic, second highest rockfill dam in Europe), so the reservoir is also the deepest in the Czech Republic (85.5 m). The reservoir has a capacity of 127 million m³.

External links

• Official webpage