A run-of-river power station continuously produces electricity from flowing water in an impounded river. With a flow rate of, for example, 600 cubic metres of water per second it achieves an output of around 26 Megawatt. There are around 600 such power stations in Germany, some are more than 100 years old. Together, they feed more than 2 600 Megawatt electricity into the grid.

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