Tarnița – Lăpuștești Hydroelectric Power Station

Tarnița–Lăpuștești Hydroelectric Power Station
Tarnița–Lăpuștești Hydroelectric Power Station
	Location of Tarnița–Lăpuștești Hydroelectric Power Station in Romania
Country	Romania
Location	Lăpuștești, Râșca, Cluj County
Coordinates	46°42′50″N 23°16′07″E
Status	Under construction
Construction began	15 June 2008[1]
Construction cost	Estimated €1.3 billion[2][3][4] (US$1.5 billion)
Dam and spillways
Impounds	Someșul Cald River
	Website; www.hidrotarnita.ro

The Tarnița–Lăpuștești Hydropower Plant is a proposed hydroelectric pumped-storage project on the Someșul Cald River in Cluj County, Romania. If built it would be the largest hydro-electric load balancing system in Romania. During the night, when the demand is low and electricity is cheap because of powerplants which generate electricity continuously, such as the Cernavodă nuclear power plant, it will use electricity to pump water up the hill, while during the day, it will use the hydro energy to generate electricity.

Location

The Tarnița–Lăpuștești power station will be located 35 km (22 mi) from Cluj Napoca,[5] on the left bank of the Someşul Cald River valley in the area of the existing Lake Tarnița and the Lăpuștești village, in Râșca commune.

Power generation

The power station will have four turbines, each capable of producing 250 megawatts, for a total of 1000 megawatts.[6]

Schedule

Construction has not started. The Romanian state is looking for investors. The strategic environmental assessment (SEA) procedure is at the beginning, the environmental impact assessment (EIA) procedure did not start yet, as the project consultants admitted publicly on 17 November 2010. In 2016 the Romanian government stated that several smaller projects were being considered instead.[7] In 2019, Romania’s Forecast and Strategy National Committee (CNSP) started a procedure for finding a private partner for the Tarnița–Lăpuștești pumped-storage hydropower plant.[8]

References

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[1] Work began on the huge Tarnița–Lăpuștești Hydropower Plant (in Romanian)

[2] ME reevalueaza hidrocentrala de la Tarnița–Lăpuștești la 1,3 miliarde euro și urgentează proiectul (in Romanian)

[3] The power plant will cost around 1 billion euros (in Romanian)

[4] World Bank will finance up to 25% of the total cost of the project (in Romanian)

[5] Location of the power plant (in Romanian)

[6] The power plant will have a final power generation capacity of 1000 MW (in Romanian)

[7] ttps://balkangreenenergynews.com/state-mulls-scrapping-development-of-1-gw-hydro-plant/

[8] "State to seek private partner for pumped-storage HPP Tarnița–Lăpuștești". balkangreenenergynews.com. March 4, 2019. Retrieved December 17, 2020.

High Capacity Power stations in Romania
(more than 100 MW installed capacity)
Thermal	Turceni - 1,650 MW Rovinari - 1,320 MW Mintia-Deva - 1,285 MW Crivina - 990 MW Brazi - 950 MW Petrom Brazi - 860 MW Iernut - 800 MW Sărdănești - 700 MW Borzești - 655 MW Brăila - 646 MW Ișalnița - 630 MW Bucharest South - 550 MW Galați - 535 MW Doicești - 320 MW Bucharest West - 310 MW Craiova II - 300 MW Paroșeni - 300 MW Alum Tulcea - 250 MW Borzești II - 250 MW Fântânele - 250 MW Halânga - 247 MW Buzău - 207 MW Oradea - 205 MW Govora - 200 MW Progresu - 200 MW Brazi II - 150 MW Giurgiu - 150 MW Iaşi I - 150 MW Pitești Sud - 136 MW Arad - 112 MW Brașov - 100 MW Grozăvești - 100 MW Iaşi II - 100 MW Holboca - 100 MW Palas - 100 MW Suceava - 100 MW
Hydroelectric	Iron Gate I - 1,168 MW Tarnița – Lăpuștești - 1,000 MW Iron Gate II - 591 MW Lotru-Ciunget - 510 MW Râul Mare - 335 MW Mărișelu - 221 MW Vidraru - 220 MW Bicaz-Stejaru - 210 MW Ruieni - 153 MW Nehoiașu - 152 MW Oașa - 150 MW Șugag - 150 MW Remeți - 146 MW Brădișor - 115 MW Tismana - 106 MW
Nuclear	Cernavodă Nuclear Power Plant - 1,400 MW
Wind farms	Sinus Holding - 700 MW Fântânele-Cogealac - 600 MW Blackstone - 500 MW Deleni - 500 MW Eolica Cogealac - 448 MW Mărişelu - 300 MW Eolica Sǎcele - 252 MW Eolica Casimcea - 244 MW Văcăreni - 240 MW Verbund Casimcea - 225 MW Green Energy - 200 MW Pechea - 150 MW Sabloal Valea Dacilor - 147 MW EDP Cernavodă - 138 MW Eolica Beidaud - 128 MW Eolica Baia - 126 MW Eolica Sarichioi - 102 MW Gheorgheni - 100 MW

Tarnița – Lăpuștești Hydroelectric Power Station

Location

Power generation

Schedule

See also

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