Abstract:
The Salamonde Hydroelectric power scheme is located in the north of Portugal, within the
Cávado river mountainous basin, and is one of the seven powerplants of Cávado-Rabagão-
Homem hydropower system.
The original Salamonde scheme began industrial operation in 1953 and recently EDP took the
decision to repower it by means of a new 209 MW reversible scheme (Salamonde II).
Several scale hydraulic model studies of the main hydraulic structures were performed. The
paper presents the basic design studies and the description of the outlet structure and
downstream channel scale model tests as well as the results obtained.
