Building Ireland - Season 3 - Eps 4: Turlough Hill Pumped Hydro-Station
Engineer Tim Joyce explores a world-class engineering project, a power station hidden deep inside a granite mountain in County Wicklow. On top of the mountain, a man-made reservoir unleashes the power of this innovative pumped hydro-electric scheme built by Irish engineers in the late 1960s. Tim and the team of experts investigate how the reservoir feeds an underground hydro-electric power station – and vice versa. Turlough Hill Power Station was created in an area of environment and touristic sensitivity, in the days before renewable energy systems even entered the vocabulary.
About Building Ireland
Title: Building Ireland
First Air Date: 2014-07-08
Last Air Date: 2020-05-21
Status: Ended
Rating: 0/10 (from 0 votes)
Language: EN
Seasons: 3
Total Episodes: 18
Network: RTÉ One
Genres: Documentary
Production Companies: Unknown
Synopsis
A team of expert presenters in engineering, architecture and geography explore some of the finest example of Ireland’s building and engineering heritage.
