SIAHBISHE PUMPED STORAGE DAM AND POWER PLANT

PERIOD:‎ ‎2003 – 2014‎

EMPLOYER:‎ Iran Water and Power Resources Development Company

TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS:‎ Upper dam is a concrete-face rockfill dam which is 82.5 m ‎tall, 215 m wide at its foundation. Its reservoir has an ‎active storage capacity of 3.6 million cubic meters, the ‎lower dam is also a concrete-face rockfill dam, 102 m tall, ‎‎382 m wide at its foundation, the reservoir has an active ‎storage capacity of 3.8 million cubic meters, the powerhouse ‎is an underground pumped storage type with four vertical ‎Francis turbines.‎

LOCATION:‎ Adjacent to Siahbishe village

STAGE:‎ Completion of dam construction operations, and commissioning ‎of powerhouse units

MOSHANIR’S ROLE:‎ Engineering services for tendering, supreme supervision, ‎management and control of design review, and site ‎supervision

SPECIAL ACHIEVEMENTS:‎ The country’s first pumped storage dam, hydroelectric power ‎generation capacity of 1040 MW at peak hours, consumption of ‎electrical power with a capacity of 960 MW during low-load ‎hours