Eagle Mountain 1,300 MW Hydropower Plant

Planning Schematics

Using the excavated mine pits as reservoirs, the project will store water in an upper reservoir for later release through an underground power plant to the lower reservoir, generating electricity during peak hours - The project is closed loop, in that there is no connection to any existing lake or river.gross head of the project will be 426.72m. The total number of penstocks, pipes or long channels that carry water down from the hydroelectric reservoir to the turbines inside the actual power ...