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Cooling Towers of Chavalon Thermal Power Plant
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Cooling Towers of Chavalon Thermal Power Plant
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Chavalon’s cooling installation belonged to Switzerland’s former oil-fired power station above Vouvry. The plant entered service in 1965 and was shut down in 1999 after more than three decades of operation.
Cooling towers rejected waste heat from the steam-cycle generating process so that water could be recirculated. Chavalon’s compact tower group became a defining element of the plant’s industrial silhouette on the mountainside.
The site was built to support electricity supply when hydroelectric production alone could not meet winter demand, placing the plant within a very specific phase of Swiss post-war energy planning.
Cooling towers rejected waste heat from the steam-cycle generating process so that water could be recirculated. Chavalon’s compact tower group became a defining element of the plant’s industrial silhouette on the mountainside.
The site was built to support electricity supply when hydroelectric production alone could not meet winter demand, placing the plant within a very specific phase of Swiss post-war energy planning.
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Close telephoto view of four cooling-tower structures at the former Chavalon Thermal Power Plant on a forested mountainside.
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Centrale thermique de Chavalon
Chavalon
Chavalon Thermal Power Plant
cooling tower
Corbeyrier
electricity
energy
energy source
Europe
fossil fuel
Historic industrial buildings
Industrial architecture
Industrial heritage
oil power
oil-fired
power plant
Rhône Valley
Switzerland
Valais
Vaud
Vouvry
Vouvry Thermal Power Plant
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Jan-Willem Kruse
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