Sihwa Lake Tidal Power Station

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Sihwa Lake Tidal Power Station
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Sihwa Lake Tidal Power Station is located in South Korea
Sihwa Lake Tidal Power Station
Location of Sihwa Lake Tidal Power Station in South Korea
Country South Korea
Location Sihwa Lake, Gyeonggi Province
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Status Operational
Opening date August 4, 2011[1]
Construction cost 313.5 billion
Owner(s) Korea Water Resources Corporation
Power station
Type Tidal barrage
Turbines 10 × 25.4 MW
Installed capacity 254 MW[2]
Capacity factor 24.8%
Annual generation 552 GWh[2]:6

Sihwa Lake Tidal Power Station is the world's largest tidal power installation, with a total power output capacity of 254 MW. When completed in 2011, it surpassed the 240 MW Rance Tidal Power Station which was the world's largest for 45 years. It is operated by the Korea Water Resources Corporation.[citation needed]

Design

The tidal barrage makes use of a seawall constructed in 1994 for flood mitigation and agricultural purposes. Ten 25.4 MW submerged bulb turbines were driven in an unpumped flood generation scheme; power is generated on tidal inflows only, and the outflow is sluiced away, ie as one-way power generation.[2] This slightly unconventional and relatively inefficient approach has been chosen to balance a complex mix of existing land use, water use, conservation, environmental and power generation considerations.[3][4]

The station's mean operating tidal range is 5.6 m (18 ft), with a spring tidal range of 7.8 m (26 ft). The working basin area was originally intended to be 43 km2 (17 sq mi)[5] and has been reduced by land reclamation and freshwater dykes to 30 km2 (12 sq mi), likely to be reduced further.[6]

Construction

The power station was built in 2011 and started to operate in 2012.[2] The project cost 313.5 billion won (£180 million, or $US293 million, roughly $1m per MW) and was borne by the South Korean Government.[7]:37[8]

Environmental context

After the seawall was built in 1994, pollution built up in the newly created Sihwa Lake reservoir, making its water useless for agriculture.[3] Concentrations of perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS) measured in Lake Sihwa were among the greatest ever measured in the environment.[9] In January 2003, PFOS had been found at 730 ng/L in Lake Shihwa water.[9]

In 2004, seawater was reintroduced in the hope of flushing out contamination; inflows from the tidal barrage were envisaged as a complementary permanent solution. As of 2007 the power station was planned to provide this indirect environmental benefit, as well as renewable energy.[3]

See also

Notes

  1. Turning tidesKorea joongang daily[dead link]
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 Nohyoung Park (May 2007) Sihwa Tidal Power Plant: a success of environment and energy policy in Korea, Korea University, www.eer.wustl.edu, retrieved 30 May 2016
  4. Tidal power primed for breakthrough waterpowermagazine.com,[dead link]
  5. Tidal and Tidal Current Power Study in Korea OREG.ca[dead link]
  6. Arirang Korea (22 August 2013),Ansan City's Bandalseom Project at Lake Sihwa taking shape The Korea International Broadcasting Foundation
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  8. Hunt for African Projects Newsworld Korea, 2009,[dead link]
  9. 9.0 9.1 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.

References

World’s Largest Tidal Power Plant–Shihwa Lake in Korea http://energy.korea.com/archives/6887