Scholven Power Station
F2
The Scholven is a power plant of E.ON power plants GmbH in the district Scholven the city of Gelsenkirchen. It is with an installed capacity of 2126 MW as one of the most efficient coal-fired power plants in Europe. Two located on-site power plant units were fired up to its closure in 2001 and 2003 with fuel oil. The plant annually produces 10.7 million tons of CO2; this corresponds to 900 g of CO2 per kilowatt hour.
The produced in Scholven electrical energy covers about three percent of the German demand. The blocks B -F, the district heating power plant Buer ( VCs ) and the steam Scholven ( DWS ) provide steam to adjacent chemical plants and district heating to some surrounding towns. The supplied electrical energy is fed into neighboring farms and into the net of Amprion.
Power plant silhouette
The 302 meter high chimneys, which are among the highest in Germany, along with the five existing cooling towers form a vast industrial backdrop. Therefore, the power plant site and the adjacent stockpile Oberscholven scene in the crime scene was " The bullet in the body " of 1979.
Formerly possessed the power plant with a total of five chimneys, one of which is identical to the southern chimney; another, with a height less than the still existing three, only the block F was assigned. These were 1992/93 dismantled due to the restructuring of the flue gas desulphurisation and the tower stumps that are on the current aerial photographs still recognizable redeveloped.
The two north stationary cooling towers were demolished on August 10, 2008, as they could no longer be used after the withdrawal of the oil-fired units G and H.
The 67 m high and 43 m wide boiler house in Block G was busted January 17, 2010. In order for the demolition of the blocks G and H is almost completed.
History
Emerged the power plant is from a plant for captive demand for electricity and steam from the mine Scholven. This results in a powerful large-scale power plant developed. In the years 1968 to 1971, almost identical coal-fired power plant units B -E 1979 Block F and the end of 1985 went into operation in 1974 and 1975, followed by the identical oil-fired power plant units G and H ( 50 % share of RWE Power), the district heating power plant Buer ( FWK ). The block G was finally decommissioned in the summer of 2001, the Block H in the summer of 2003. The demolition of the two blocks had begun in late 2007. The demolition of the two cooling towers took place at 12:17 clock on 10 August 2008.
In December 2013, E.ON announced that the blocks D through F are to be switched off until the spring of 2015.
Specifications
Mains connection
The connection to the transmission network Amprion takes place at the blocks B - E takes on the 220 - kV high- voltage level and at block F on the 380 kV level.