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Lower Flammicell Hydroelectric Plant Project. Gento Dam

Date
1915
Archive
County Archives of Pallars Jussà
Document type
Textual
Reference code
CAT-ACPJ-84-2
Link to the online document
Description

The Capdella hydroelectric plant was put into operation in 1914 and was the first large-scale Catalan plant to come into operation, being considered at the time as a pioneering installation in Europe due to the difficulty and magnitude of the works. It was built by the company Energia Elèctrica de Catalunya, and the project of the works was drawn up in 1911 by the French engineer Leon Mounaille of the company Locher & Cie of Zurich (Switzerland), directing the works by the same company through its subsidiary “Trabajos Hidráulicos de los Altos Pirineos”. Only with the technical cooperation of European and Commonwealth companies was the energy modernization of the second industrial revolution in Catalonia possible. In the document, a project for the Estany Gento dam dated 1915.