IMPORT AND EXPORT OF ELECTRIC POWER IN AUSTRIA

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 27, 2011
• Sequence Number: 552
• Publication Date: February 25, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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IMPORT AND EXPORT CF ELECTRIC POWER IN AUSTRIA
The following information i. taken from a report of the Aus-
trian National Committee given at the Fourth World Power Confer-
ence in London in 1949, and entitled "The Sources and Develop-
ment of Austria's Supply of Energy." The report was compiled by
0. Rules and 0. Vas and was reprinted in condensed form in Oes-
terreicbische Zeitschrift fuer Elektrizitaetzvirtschaft, Vol III,
No 8, Vienna, August 1950.
Major changes have errurred in the export of electric power from Austria.
Germany is no longer, as before the war, the sole consumer of power exported
from Austria, although she is still the largest. Austria now exports electric
power to all },nr neighboring states.
It is noteworthy that under the Treaty of 1947 Austria no longer unilat-
erally exports power from the Tyrol and Vorarlberg to Germany but now receives
electric power from the German network for her own "Verbund" network (combined
power supply system) during the winter half year. Thus, an exchange of elec-
tric power favo.able to Austria in the winter months has replaced mere power
export, and through this the power deficit in the eastern part of the country
has been markedly lowered, although not completely eliminated.
In addition to this, important quantities of hydroelectric power will
be made available to the European economy as a whole through the construction
of.plants for the export of power in Vorarlberg, and in western and eastern
Tyrol (see Table 1).
Data on projected plants for the export of power are listed in Table 1.
Data on the Austrian export and import of electri: power for 1937, 1946, 1947,
1948, and the first half of 1949 are listed in Tables 2 and 3.
The rower imported from Hungary has been so little that figures for it
have not been given in Table 3.
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Oesterreichische Zeltschrift fuer Elektrizitaetswirtachaft, Vol III,
No 8, 1950.
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RESTRiC A6
Construction
Time
Yr.
Luenersee
3
Oetztal
8
Oberer Inn
6
Osttirol
(Eastern Tyrol)
9
Total
To
1937
1946
Germany
412,997
751,417
Switzerland
--
--
Liechtenstein
--
3,215
Italy
--
--
Czechoslovakia
--
8,455
Yug"rlavia
--
616
Percentage of
total produc-
tion
14
21
From
1937
1946
Germany
2,065
16,825
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--
Czechoslovakia
--
58
Yugoslavia
--
1,965
Total import
2,065
18,848
Normal
Annual
Ca it out t
1,000 b.,) million k-w-h)
156 213
373 1,125
392 1,609
430 1,205
1,351 4,152
1947
1948
First Half
of 1949
589,949
909,184
229,067
20
137
90
4,927
5,013
2,949
42,290
10,095
--
6,587
440
150
74
162
6
16
18
1947
1948
First Half
of 1949
79,143
151,432
78,400
--
240
310
864
470
230
80,017
152,269
78,940
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