History
In 2001 the plant was built by the 3 landowners Magnar Indrebø, Kjell Arild Aase and Svein Helgås with significant personal effort on the dam intake, penstock trench and power station. The power plant is a purely run-of-river plant without regulation. Hermod Seim served as a consultant and construction contractor, with excellent results.
The power plant utilises a fall height of approximately 92 metres and has a 1.5 MW Francis turbine, which provides an annual production of approximately 6.77 GWh of renewable energy.
Francis The turbine at the plant was supplied by Fadum Tekniske/ BNTurbin AS. Sinus Elektro AS supplied the electromechanical equipment and automation. Pipes were supplied by Brødrene Dahl and the basic work as well as the actual pipe laying was carried out by Røyset Maskin AS. Steel structures at the intake and power station were supplied by Sunnfjord Industri AS and installations were done by Ove Helgås AS. Hywer was the supplier for the grate cleaner.
