Buschhaus Power Station

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The power plant bush house is a German lignite power plant in the Helmstedt mining area, about eight kilometers from Helmstedt away in the municipality of Büddenstedt. It has a gross capacity of 392 ( 352 net ) megawatt and is operated by the district of Helmstedt GmbH. This operating company for power plant and Schöninger mining was re-established in September 2013, before E.ON power plants GmbH sold the power plant to the MIBRAG, which is owned by the Czech EP Energy as is located. In 2002 the plant was modernized. It annually produces 2.2 million tons of CO2; this corresponds to 1200 g CO2 per kWh generated. The power plant Buschhaus it one of the 30 coal-fired power plants with the largest absolute CO2 emissions in Germany. For the year 2010, the European Pollutant Emission Register for the power plant bush house emission of 2.21 million tons of CO2, 1780 tons of sulfur oxides, 1380 tons of nitrogen oxides and 81.3 kg of mercury.

History of the operating license

The power plant was planned in the late 1970s. The power plant should be operated with the sulfur-containing salt coal around. For the required amount is specifically a new open pit mine mining Schoningen, ascended. The former operator Braunschweigische coal mines ( BKB ) was based on the CDU led government of Lower Saxony and refused the installation of flue gas desulphurisation than not the state of the art. There the insight for installation of flue gas desulphurisation plant only began by slowly. According to the state government to retrofit after the commissioning of the power plant Buschhaus would have been possible. During this time there have been several protests by environmentalists.

The new Federal Government carbon prevail because of the strong political pressure for a two years later commissioning of Buschhaus one to be approached at a desulfurization operation. So she stood against the government of Lower Saxony by Ernst Albrecht. In a meeting convened by the SPD special session of the Bundestag on 31 July 1984 at which the deputies were summoned from vacation, the politicians decided on a compromise: Buschhaus could go online without flue gas desulphurisation plant but not burn the sulfur-containing salt coal, but low-sulfur variants from other mines. Commissioning was delayed until March 1985 by further legal disputes.

In the Federal Republic of Germany for the first time this meant a decision under strong consideration of environmental awareness.

Chimney

The power plant has a 307 -meter-high chimney, which is the highest in operation in Germany.

Cooling water supply

The power plant bush house is not in a body of water. The process and cooling water is obtained from deep wells and from surface waters of the disused pit Alversdorf at Offleben.

Mains connection

The plant feeds on the 380 kV level of the switchgear Helmstedt in the transmission grid of TenneT TSO.