Bexbach Power Station
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The power plant Bexbach is a German hard coal power plant. It is Bexbach Saarland and has a capacity of 773 megawatts. It is the most efficient power station in the Saarland. On the coal storage of power plant up to 200,000 tons of coal can be stored. Every year it produces 2.9 million tons of CO2; this corresponds to 920 g of CO2 per kWh.
History
Old plants
At the site Bexbach a power plant was built in 1953, the power plant St. Barbara I, the verfeuerte the calorific ballast coal from the new pit sunk Bexbach. The plant also had only an electric power of 110 MW with two turbines. The electricity generated was fed into the pit 's 65 kV network of the Saar mines.
In 1957 began the construction of the power plant Barbara II with an electrical output of 150 MW. The plant was commissioned in 1960. Buyer of the electricity were the RWE. At this time, however, the mine Bexbach was already shut down (1959). Now, the fuel consumption of about 1,200 tons of low-grade coal per day had to be delivered from other mines of the Saar mines and from private mines via rail and road.
Both power plants in 1988 and 1989 shut down, inter alia, because retrofitting according to the requirements of the Large Combustion Plant Directive ( GFAVO ) are no longer economically calculated. In addition, the dust and noxious gas exposure led at close range, with increasing environmental awareness of the population, are protests. In 1990 the facilities were dismantled. Parts of the equipment bought a group of companies from India and put it there back in service.
Today's power plant
After the construction of the 707 MW coal-fired large power plant pond III in Quierschied, the first of its power rating in the Federal Republic of Germany, the Saar mines the flow rates that are no longer after due to expiring contracts France decided to build another power plant unit with 750 MW of electrical power, could be delivered, in the Saarland itself to scattering generously. Target group for the purchase of electricity were the former South German power company works Baden (BW ), energy supply Swabia - both today EnBW - and the Bayernwerke ( BAW) - E.ON today After extensive negotiations, these commissioned the Saar mines with the planning, construction and operation of the planned power plant unit.
In 1979 construction began on the present Bexbach power plant after the on November 16, 1978 gave advance notice pursuant to § 9 of the Federal Pollution Control Act ( Federal Pollution Control Act ) became effective. On April 1, 1983, the power plant went into trial operation on 12 October 1983, the official commissioning.
The project was highly controversial in public. Several plaintiffs against the immissionsrechtliche approval attracted her action only when the Saar mines concessions on environmental matters made that went far beyond that of the permit decision. Two weeks before the official launch in 1983, there was a spectacular protest. Two members of the Bund district Pirmasens group climbed on October 1, 1983 240 m high chimney, a banner with the words "Tree Killer" unfurled and occupied eight hours to vent. In a statement protesting against the expected in their view, pollution and not corresponding to the prior art pollutant Abscheidemaßnahmen. This was one of the first such protest demonstrations against a wholesale coal power plant in Germany.
The plans for a second power block at the site in 1996 after many years of resistance, especially from Western Palatinate communities abandoned.
Operators of the power plant Bexbach is the Steag Power Saar GmbH. This is the legal successor of STEAG Saar Energie AG. The plant itself is 75 percent of the KBV - Kraftwerk Bexbach mbH ( 33.3 percent shareholder Evonik New Energies GmbH and 66.6 percent EnBW power stations AG). Other shareholders were 16.66 percent STAWAG ( Stadtwerke Aachen AG ) and 8.34 percent of the E.ON power plants GmbH. EnBW acquired in 2009 the share of E.ON and with effect from 1 October 2009 and the 16.7 percent share of STAWAG Energie GmbH (Aachen). EnBW in Bexbach now has 714 MW of installed capacity and extended its current subscription rights to 100 percent.
An application for co-incineration of sewage sludge was rejected in late 2003 by the Saarland Ministry of the Environment. In a press release by the Department from 1 January 2004 it said, the request would be rejected, because neither the pollution control law according to § 6 para 1 No. 1 were available nor the other public approval requirements of § 6 paragraph 1 No. 2 BimSchG. The Ministry had come after consulting the TÜV SÜD considers that in the co-incineration of sewage sludge, the allowable limits could be exceeded for mercury. In addition, the building code agreement lay before neither the city nor Bexbach the district administrator of the Saar Pfalz -Kreis. An appeal by the applicant against the decision of the licensing authority before the Administrative Court of the Saarland had no success. An appeal was denied.
The power is supplied via the switchgear Mittelbexbach on the 380 kV high- voltage level in the network of Amprion.