The project will create additional urgently needed storage capacity for the energy transition by 2027. In its final state, the power plant will be able to generate electricity for 30,000 households for 7 hours without interruption from the water stored in caverns or to compensate for fluctuations in the electricity grid over a longer period of time.
Tractebel Hydroprojekt is in charge of the planning consortium ‘Ingenieurarbeitsgemeinschaft Forbach’ and has been planning the project with its long-standing expertise together with its partners Tractebel Engineering and Geoconsult consulting engineers since the initial conceptual considerations.