Key Statistics
- Lake Benmore area: ~ 75 kilometres square
- Lake Benmore shoreline: 116 km
- Dam crest length: 823 metres
- Dam crest height: 110 metres
- Dam width at base: 490 metres
- Dam width at crest: 10.6 metres
- Dam fill: 28 million tonnes
- Head (hydraulic): 92 metres
- Average river water flow: 340 m³/s
- Nominal annual generation: 2,200 GWh
- Installed capacity: 540 MW
- Machinery: 6 x 93,000 kW vertical Francis turbines (Dominion Engineering, Canada), coupled to 6 x 90,000 kW 112,500 kVA generators (Canadian General Electric); 6 transformer banks totalling 1,150 MVA
- Penstocks: Concrete
Read more about this topic: Benmore Dam
Famous quotes containing the words key and/or statistics:
“‘The key is in the window, the key is in the sunlight at the
window—I have the key—Get married Allen don’t take drugs—the key is in the bars, in the sunlight in the window.
Love,
your mother’”
—Allen Ginsberg (b. 1926)
“July 4. Statistics show that we lose more fools on this day than in all the other days of the year put together. This proves, by the number left in stock, that one Fourth of July per year is now inadequate, the country has grown so.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)