Heyden Power Station
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The power plant Heyden is a German hard coal power plant and is one of seventeen coal power plants of the operator E.ON AG. It is Lahde with Peter Hagen in Minden- Lübbecke in North Rhine -Westphalia and is 875 megawatt net output is the most powerful coal-fired power plant with only one block in Europe.
History
The power plant Lahde the Preussen Elektra (1953 renamed Heyden Power Station ) was the first power plant, which went into the Federal Republic of Germany after the war to the grid. On May 7, 1951, produced for the first time 120 megawatts of power from up to 54 tons of coal per hour. The plans for the power plant began in 1939 by the predecessor of the Preussen Elektra. In April 1960 and August 1961, two more blocks were put into operation to meet the increasing demand for electricity to cover. With the closure of these three blocks at the start of the 1980s, at the same time began the construction of block four, which supplies since 1987 and up to 875 megawatts ( net ). On 3 July 2011, the 60th anniversary was celebrated with an open day at the factory.
2012 was the power plant due to maintenance work from late April to mid-July by the network. Here at 150 days of downtime were maintained and upgraded the technology for 40 million euros. The last major revision with shut-down was 2005.
Performance
This new investment made at the beginning of 865 megawatts. Through constant modernization and development of coal - monoblock is currently providing 920 gross megawatts, making it both the most powerful coal-fired power plant of E.ON power plants GmbH and currently the largest coal - monoblock Europe. The efficiency of the power plant is 42 percent.
The power plant Heyden is designed for use in medium load. Apart from times when it has to compensate not available power, it is mainly used on weekdays the changing power demand. At 3,000 to 5,000 full load hours of use per year, the power plant makes one annual work 2.5 to 4.2 billion kilowatt hours.
After the energy turnaround in 2011, the plant was not only, as previously used in the medium load range, but currently used also to stabilize the grid and work in the base load range.
In the power plant Heyden up to three trains á 44 wagons are daily supplied with 60 tons of coal, also can also take a delivery by ship. On the coal stockpiles of the power plant up to 143,000 tons of coal can be stored, the daily consumption is a maximum of 7000 tons. The capacity of the large-scale equipment and belt conveyors for loading of waste heaps and the coal bunker is 1000 tons per hour.
Mains connection
The power supply is connected to the 380 kV high voltage level in the network of the transmission system operator TenneT TSO.
Staff
The power plant Heyden is run in conjunction with the power plants Wilhelmshaven and the power plant Hunt village since 2009 and is now called Kraftwerk Group North. Head of Heyden is October 1, 2009 Thomas Hohmann, after he provisionally held this position since 2008. Power plant manager in 2012 Jörn Neumann.