Ponale Hydroelectric Power Plant

Ponale Hydroelectric Power Plant (Italian: Centrale idroelettrica del Ponale) is a pumped storage plant, located in city of Riva del Garda in the Italian province of Trentino, on River Ponale between Lake Ledro and Lake Garda.

[2] The station was built in 1928-1929[3] and, following rework of the pipes, underwent overhaul in 1998.

[1] From Lake Ledro, the water is ducted several kilometers to penstocks at a point (close to the Chiesetta di Santa Barbara) almost directly above the power station buildings and machinery at Riva del Garda; from here it falls on a gradient approaching 3:1 to the turbines.

[4][5] The station is known by the world record in high-rise concrete pumping during the reconstruction in 1994.

[2] During construction of the plant, there was discovered the remains of a Bronze Age pile-dwelling village (over 10 000 piles) on the east of the Lake Ledro.