ABSTRACT
Alfred Weskamp, one of the executive managers of the Tauernkraftwerke AG praised the Marshall Plan. Pre-Marshall Plan aid for the workers in Kaprun was delivered by the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration and the Quakers. The pulp and paper industry received the highest counterpart credits of all privately owned industrial branches and became a main user of inexpensive electric power from Marshall Plan funded utilities. Kaprun is by far the most important single Counterpart funded project of the Marshall Plan in Austria. The name of Kaprun, actually a village, is used to indicate a large hydroelectric power generating system consisting of three storage basins, with five giant concrete dams, and two power generating plants—the lower stage with a maximum generating capacity of 220 MW and the upper stage with 112 MW. In the Alpine regions, a number of medium sized hydroelectric plants contributed to the process of local system building.
