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Turbines room of the Walchensee Hydroelectric Power Station, Kochel, Bavaria, Germany. The storage power station is fed with water from the Walchensee which is then released into the Kochelsee. The installed capacity is 124 MW with an annual production of 300 GWh, one of the largest of its kind in Germany.

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A pantograph of ED9M electric multiple unit passes neutral section of 25 kV AC overhead line between sections with different phases without lowering. Before the passage of this section a main air circuit breaker of a car (in front of pantograph) switches off, after it switches on back. Kursavka station, Stavropol region, Russia

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