Permission granted for new Traunfall hydropower plant

The Supervisory Board of Energie AG Oberösterreich has given the go-ahead to the construction of a new run-of-river power plant at the Traunfall site. Energie AG‘s third-largest power plant on the River Traun is to be built at a cost of around 190 million euros to provide clean energy for around 35,000 households. The new plant will replace the existing Gschröff, Siebenbrunn and Traunfall power plants, each of which has reached the end of its working life. The original plants were built in 1888. The new one is to be a conventional water diversion power plant with construction scheduled to start in the summer of 2025. Preliminary work is to begin immediately and building is expected to take around three years. Operation trials for the new Traunfall power plant are scheduled for 2028.