Qualla: Tangeværket Dam https://qualla.com/tangev-rket-dam en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 16 Sep 2026 19:42:18 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/u/4/n/b/tangev-rket-dam-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Tangeværket Dam https://qualla.com/tangev-rket-dam Tangeværket Dam: Introduction https://qualla.com/tangev-rket-dam/ Photo credit Sarrus at Danish Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0. On the day it opened, the power station at Tange was carrying 22.5 percent of the electricity consumed in all of Jutland. Today it covers about 0.03 percent of Denmark's. The machinery has barely changed — three Francis turbines, 3.3 megawatts between them, still the largest hydroelectric output in a country with almost no gradient to work with. Everything around it changed instead. Denmark grew an appetite for power that a river falling 149 kilometres to the sea could never satisfy, and it grew, at the same time, a conscience about what the dam had cost. Tangeværket is less an energy asset now than an argument, and the argument has outlasted the concession it started over.

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]]> Sat, 05 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/4/n/b/tangev-rket-dam-wp/u4nb-tangev-rket-dam-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Tangeværket Dam: Three Hundred Thousand Cubic Metres, by Hand https://qualla.com/tangev-rket-dam/ Photo credit Sarrus at Danish Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0. Kristian Thomsen and S. A. Angelo drew the plans in 1909. Nine years passed before anyone broke ground, because nothing could start until an agreement was reached with the Gudenå Commission. Work finally began in August 1918, and what followed was earthmoving on a scale Denmark h...

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]]> Sat, 05 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/4/n/b/tangev-rket-dam-wp/u4nb-tangev-rket-dam-three-hundred-thousand-cubic-metres-by-hand.mp3 0:06 2 full Tangeværket Dam: Twenty-Two and a Half Percent https://qualla.com/tangev-rket-dam/ Photo credit Sarrus at Danish Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0. The station was commissioned on 20 December 1920 and formally inaugurated on 8 January 1921. Inside sat three double Francis turbine-generators, 1.1 megawatts apiece, and for a peninsula of farms and market towns they represented the future arriving in a shed beside a river. Annu...

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]]> Sat, 05 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/4/n/b/tangev-rket-dam-wp/u4nb-tangev-rket-dam-twenty-two-and-a-half-percent.mp3 0:06 3 full Tangeværket Dam: Five Homes and Twenty-Two Farms https://qualla.com/tangev-rket-dam/ Photo credit Sarrus at Danish Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0. Behind the dam, the Gudenå backed up into its own valley and stayed there. Tange Sø spreads across roughly 540 hectares, three metres deep on average and ten at its deepest, holding some 20 million cubic metres — Denmark's largest artificial lake. Filling it required emptying it ...

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]]> Sat, 05 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/4/n/b/tangev-rket-dam-wp/u4nb-tangev-rket-dam-five-homes-and-twenty-two-farms.mp3 0:06 4 full Tangeværket Dam: A Ladder Is Not a River https://qualla.com/tangev-rket-dam/ Photo credit Sarrus at Danish Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0. The dam has always had a fish ladder. Whether a ladder is a substitute for a river is the question that has never been resolved. In 1980 a new one was fitted, carrying 150 litres per second — a sevenfold improvement on the 20 litres per second of its predecessor, and still a tric...

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]]> Sat, 05 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/4/n/b/tangev-rket-dam-wp/u4nb-tangev-rket-dam-a-ladder-is-not-a-river.mp3 0:06 5 full Tangeværket Dam: Still Unsettled https://qualla.com/tangev-rket-dam/ Photo credit Sarrus at Danish Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0. Danish politics handled this the way politics handles anything with no painless answer: in increments. The concession was extended in 2000, then 2002, then 2007, in stretches of two to six years. In 2013 the Folketing scrapped the 1918 concession law altogether and folded the pla...

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