Patent ID: 7061135

Claim:
A device for generating electrical power from a flowing medium, comprising: a number of turbine generator units connected to one another to form at least one module; at least two fixed-position structures structured and arranged essentially alongside each other to form a part of a waterway; said at least one module being structured and arranged between said at least two fixed-position structures to be raised and lowered, whereby a high water level is produced upstream of said at least one module and a low water level is produced downstream of said at least one module; at least one auxiliary apparatus provided on each of said two fixed-position structures that extends above an upper edge of said fixed-position structures; a lifting device structured and arranged to lift said at least one module, which is guided, at least partially, by said at least one auxiliary apparatus, such that, in a lifting procedure, said least one module is raised above said upper edges of said fixed-position structures.