TELFS. The huge high-level drinking water pond built in 1938 is currently unused. “We will him put back into operation – as a reservoir for electricity production, especially for emergency power supply,” announces GemeindeWerke Managing Director Dirk Jäger.
“Before water flows out of the Weiherbach unused, we will collect it in the old elevated tank, which has a capacity of at least 7,000 cubic meters,” announces Dirk Jäger: It takes around ten hours to fill once, and it supplies around 4,000 kilowatt hours of electricity once it is emptied (i.e. the annual requirement of a household). . The normal power production by the pond power plant is not affected.
In this context, the implement so-called isolated solutions, through which the important drinking water pumping stations for Buchen can be operated in the event of a power failure. “We will quickly lay the appropriate cables so that this project can be implemented!”
In principle, the Weiher reservoir is comparable to a reservoir, such as the huge ones that exist in Tyrol for electricity production. “We can regulate electricity production as needed,” explains the GWTelfs managing director: “Then we can trade it on the electricity market.” Because, as is well known, there are times when energy is urgently needed and bought at good prices.
For the activation of the old pond pond, which dates back to 1938 and has since been shut down, the supervisory board and owner representatives, on the initiative of the managing director, recently gave the green light and approved the investment of 8,000 euros. Theoretically, it would also be possible to use the elevated tank for the drinking water supply. “But that’s not necessary at the moment, because we can already keep more than 7,000,000 liters in stock in our 14 elevated tanks,” emphasizes Dirk Jäger.
