Hydropower station

Genisya Hydroelectric Power Station ( French Barrage-usine de Genissiat ) is a hydroelectric power station in southeastern France . It is a powerful station in the cascade on the Rhone River, located between the Chancey Puni hydroelectric power station (upstream, on the neutral territory between Switzerland and France ) and the Seisel hydroelectric power station .

Hydropower station
A country	France
Municipality	Anjou-Genisya ,
Status	acting
River	Rona
Cascade	cascade on the Rhone
Start of construction	1937
Years of commissioning the first and last hydraulic units	1948
Main characteristics
Installed capacity	420 MW
Average annual production	1612 million kWh
Type of HPP	Dams
Calculated head	67 m
Equipment specifications
Type of turbines	Francis
Number of turbines	6
Flow through turbines	750 m³ / s
The number of hydrogenerators	6
Power of hydraulic units	6x70 MW
Main facilities
Dam type	concrete gravity
Dam height	104 m
Dam length	165 m
Owner	CNR
Hydropower station

The construction of the station began in 1937 , but due to the outbreak of World War II, construction was suspended. Since 1945, active construction work resumed, which allowed the dam to be completed in two years. After accumulating enough water in 1948, the power plant was put into operation.

The river is blocked by a concrete gravity dam 104 meters high, 165 meters long, from 9 (along the ridge) to 57 meters wide. It holds a reservoir stretched along the river valley with a volume of 56 million m3.

The machine room, located at the foot of the dam, is equipped with six Francis type turbines with a capacity of 70 MW each, operating at a pressure of 67 meters (the largest in the cascade, the closest indicator at Bollen station is only 22.5 meters). This allows us to produce more than 1.6 billion kWh of electricity per year.

At the station there is a dispatch center, from which other hydroelectric power stations are managed on the upper Rhone . ^{[1] [2]}