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waterfalls of sweden.
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the legal actions instituted in recent years by the State, with the object
of establishing the State ownership of a large number of waterfalls which
have hitherto been regarded as the private property of the riparian
owners.
A rough estimate of the water-power which, with suitable regulation
of lakes, can be utilized with profit has shown that it amounts to about 3-8
million horse-power. In "Sveriges Nationalförmögenhet" the aggregate
amount of the water-power which has already been equipped, or is of such
a nature that it may be excepted to be equipped before 1959 is estimated
at 3 511 540 turbine horse-power, distributed as follows:
[-Turbine-horse-power-]
{+Turbine-
horse-power+}
Central Sweden................... 83 600
South-East Sweden................. 280 270
Skåne....................... 27120
West Sweden ............../..... 680000
Lower Norrland and Dalarne............. 1537 710
Upper Norrland................... 902 840
Total 3 511540
Out of this total, about 750 000 turbine horse-power or 21 % should be
equipped at the end of 1913, and out of that amount again, 654 000
turbine horse-power by private or communal enterprise, and the remainder,
about 96 000 turbine horse-power by the State. The State power works
at Trollhättan are included in this estimate with 80 000 turbine
horsepower.
If we include the works now in process of construction at Porjus and
Älvkarleby and the works being constructed by the City of Stockholm at
Untra, the corresponding figures will be: 870 000 — 25 % — 692 000 —
178 000.
In the above figures are not included a great number of plants of less than
100 turbine horse-power, which, if included, might increase the total amount of
installed turbine horse-power by some 50 000.
If we observe how the utilization of water power has developed in different
parts of the country, we shall find obvious proofs of the influence that the
geographical position of the sources of power has exerted on their utilization. The
relation between utilized and available water-power (the latter according to
assumptions made in "Sveriges Nationalförmögenhet")
figures out as follows:
At the end
of 1913
Central Sweden.......... 74 0 % 74’0 %
South-East Sweden......... 29 0 » 29’0 »
Skåne...............13 5 » 13’5 >
West Sweden........... 40 0 » 40 0 >
Lower Norrland and Dalarne .... 9’5 > 12’5 >
Upper Norrland.......... l’O > 2’7 >
at the end of 1912 then
Do., incl. of
Trollhättan, Porjus,
Älvkarleby, Untra1
1 The Älvkarleby and Untra plants are here (according to assumptions made in "Sveriges
nationalförmögenhet") reckoned as belonging to Lower Norrland and Dalarne.
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