Dinorwig hydropower
United Kingdom /
Wales /
Bethesda /
World
/ United Kingdom
/ Wales
/ Bethesda
hydroelectric power station/plant, pumped-storage power station
At night base-load power pumps water up slope. In the day when demand is high the flow is reversed generating up to 1.2 gigawatts within 12 seconds. In effect a giant battery
Nearby cities:
Coordinates: 53°7'35"N 4°5'14"W
- Turlough Hill Power Plant 156 km
- Leixlip Dam 162 km
- Keilder Resevoir 253 km
- Sloy Hydro Power Station 350 km
- Loch Mullardoch Dam 472 km
- Belesar Dam 1199 km
- Lindoso Power Station 1293 km
- Tamega pumped hydro plant 1322 km
- Control and staff buildings 1458 km
- Kárahnjúkar Hydropower Plant 1459 km
- Dinorwig slate quarries 1 km
- Nant Ffrancon 4 km
- Penrhyn Slate Quarry 4.3 km
- Ogwen Valley 8.3 km
- Menai Strait 11 km
- Anafon Valley 13 km
- Red Wharf Bay 21 km
- West Shore 26 km
- The Great Orme / Y Gogarth 28 km
- Parc Cenedlaethol Eryri (Snowdonia National Park) 28 km