In October 2022, following several months od negotiations conducted via teleconferences, and two on-site visits with the customer, KONČAR – Generators and Motors signed the second direct agreement with the Austrian power company Ennskraftwerke.
The customer operates a total of 14 hydropower plants on the Enns and Steyr rivers. With an annual generation of around 1,800 million kilowatt hours, supplied to Verbund and Energie AG Oberösterreich as well as to the Austrian Federal Railways, Ennskraftwerke is one of the largest Austrian producers of electricity from renewable sources.
After the successful completion of the project St. Pantaleon HPP, the new agreement with the Austrian customer was concluded for Losenstein HPP, located 25 kn south of the city of Steyr. The power plant features two sets of generators composed of vertical Kaplan turbines directly connected with three-phase synchronous generators.