South Korean corporation Korea Water Resources will construct powerful tidal power station

By the end of 2009 South Korean corporation Korea Water Resources (KOWACO) plans to finish building Sihwa Lake Tidal Power Plant — the most powerful in the world of tidal power station which will place on lake Sihva, informs a resource the Membrane.

Under construction PES is in 40 kilometres from Seoul. The lake, as a matter of fact, is a part of the marine gulf which has been partitioned off by a dam. The inflow height here reaches nine metres.

The general capacity of the future structure is evaluated in 254 megawatts (10turbines on 25-26 megawatt each). Total in a year will be vrabatyivatsya 552,7 gigavatt-hours of energy (in a network from them will act about 507 gigavatt-hours). It will be enough to supply with the electric power the semimillion city of Ansan possessed near to lake.

Turbines for Sihwa Lake Tidal Power Plant are produced by Australian company VA Tech Hydro. By estimation, these 10 giants will replace to the country of 862 thousand barrels of petroleum in a year and will reduce carbon dioxide emissions on 315 thousand tons (and also about thousand tons of other harmful substances).

Now South Korea takes the tenth place among the states which are throwing out in atmosphere of most of all hotbed gases. It is one of the reasons, on which the government uses the best efforts to transfer the country to ecologically pure kinds of energy.

So, at lake Sihva shortly plan to erect also solar and wind power stations, having transformed one of the most polluted regions of South Korea in "net energy park" there is.

At present for building of the most powerful in world PES it is spent an order of $382 million (not considering $646 million which have left on dam building ten years ago).