Dalešice pumped-storage hydropower plant in Czechia marks World Water Day with special tours

Pumped-storage hydropower plant Dalešice held special tours today. Interest was higher than in previous years, guide Dana Janovská said, with around 600 people signing up. Five guides will take them through the hydropower complex over the course of the day. It has been in operation since 1978 and comprises two reservoirs, one of which supplies water to the nearby Dukovany nuclear power plant.

Janovská said the March tours at the power plant are held regularly to mark World Water Day, celebrated on 22 March. Visitors can also see the turbine hall, and those aged over 15 can go beneath the dam to the water conduits, which open into the Dalešice Reservoir at a depth of 60 metres. Similar tours are held only during the summer holidays. „During the school year, people don’t have many opportunities to visit the power plant. It is open to them only in July and August, so this is an extra day,“ Janovská said. Outside the summer holidays, the hydropower plant is open only to organised groups, not individuals.