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The Turbine Hall

The local officials bestowed particulat attention to the lighting of the town by introducing street lamp lighting in 1850 and later, the electricity produced by the power plant located in the public gardens (1907). Today, the kilowatts are pumped by the power giant from Gura-Vaii. Bom as a result of the cooperation between Romania and neighbouring Yugoslavia, it has an installed capacity of 2,050 Mw, half of which belongs to the Romanian party. In 2002, this figure will be 1240 Mw for the Romanian beneficiary only.

In order to permit an unhampered shipping traffic on the Danube, a sluice was built on either of its banks. They are both provided with upstream and downstream   outposts as well as with equipments which are able to ensure lock chamber filling and evacuation operations, The power plant is also provided with a control tower which helps to regulate and guide sluice traffic.


The sluice lock chamber sizes are in accordance with the recomendations of the Danube Committee for the Lower Dabune sector. The Iron Gates I system for navigation and energy production (S.H.E.N.) is the third /in Europe, following the hydropower stations on the Volga river.

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