Published 2003 | Version v1
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French upper-Rhone hydroelectric power plants: about some Swiss know-how in France (years 1870 to 1946)

  • 1. Universite d'Artois (France)

Description

From Swiss border to Lyon, the Rhone declines a whole of pioneer's hydraulic installations, missing or always in place. It acts successively of Chancy-Pougny, the factories of Bellegarde-sur-Valserine and finally of the power station of Jonage. All profited from Swiss know-how. However, the multiples and various Swiss ambitions broke on the development of a hexagonal energy nationalism (CNR), on the expansion of the French groups (CGE and EI) and, finally, on the decisive interference of the State (nationalisation of 1946)

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Available from doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.3917/ahe.001.0017

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Original title (French)
Centrales hydrauliques du Haut-Rhone francais: de quelques savoir-faire suisses en France (des annees 1870 a 1946)

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Annales Historiques de l'Electricite
Journal Volume
1
Journal Issue
no.1
Journal Page Range
p. 17-35
ISSN
1762-3227