Olidan Hydroelectric Power Station
Olidan Power Station is a hydroelectric power station located in Trollhättan, Sweden. First opened in 1910, it was the first large scale attempt at generating electricity from water in Sweden.Photo: Tubaist, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Trollhättan Falls and Trollhättan Church.
Trollhättan Falls
Waterfall
Photo: Tubaist, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Trollhättan Falls is a waterfall in the Göta river in Sweden. The falls starts at Malgö Bridge in central Trollhättan, and has a total height of 32 metres, making up a large part of the 44 metre total fall of the river from Vänern to Kattegat.
Trollhättan Church
Church
Photo: Lars Mongs, Arxfoto, CC BY 4.0.
Trollhättan Church is situated 590 metres northeast of Olidan Hydroelectric Power Station.
Immanuelskyrkan, Trollhättan
Church
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Immanuelskyrkan, Trollhättan is a church, which is situated 680 metres north of Olidan Hydroelectric Power Station.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Trollhättan and Velanda.
Trollhättan
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Trollhättan is an industrial city in Sweden. It lies in Västergötland province in the modern Götaland region, and has 53,000 inhabitants.
Velanda
Village
Velanda is a locality situated in Trollhättan Municipality, Västra Götaland County, Sweden with 581 inhabitants in 2010. Velanda is situated 6 km southeast of Olidan Hydroelectric Power Station.
Olidan Hydroelectric Power Station
- Type: Industrial building
- Description: hydropower
- Categories: hydroelectric power station, organization, building, and industry
- Location: Västra Götaland County, Sweden, Nordic countries, Europe
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Latitude
58.27496° or 58° 16′ 30″ northLongitude
12.27268° or 12° 16′ 22″ eastOperator
Vattenfall ABOpen location code
9FCJ77FF+X3OpenStreetMap ID
way 88144184OpenStreetMap feature
building=industrialWikidata ID
Q450818
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to Ukrainian—“Olidan Hydroelectric Power Station” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “Waterkrachtcentrale Olidan”
- French: “centrale hydroélectrique d’Olidan”
- French: “Centrale hydroélectrique d’Olidan”
- German: “Wasserkraftwerk Olidan”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Olidan kraftverk”
- Norwegian: “Olidan kraftverk”
- Swedish: “Olidan kraftverk”
- Swedish: “Olidan”
- Swedish: “Olidans kraftverk”
- Swedish: “Olidenstationen”
- Swedish: “Olidestationen”
- Ukrainian: “ГЕС Олідан”
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