An additional on-river plant supplies the pump storage with energy to pump water uphill during the night where not much energy is used by the population. It also makes a black start possible, for example. Unfortunately, road blockings made it impossible to visit the upper basin of the pump storage. However, we were able to see the lower basin from the top of a newly built train bridge which we visited in the afternoon. The ICE information center made it possible to go inside the recently built tunnel which is not yet operating and get an exceptional insight into the construction of the new and fastest train connection between Berlin and Munich. Once accomplished, trains with more than 300km per hour will run on these tracks.
