Werdohl-Elverlingsen Power Station

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The power plant Werdohl - Elverlingsen in Elverlingsen near Werdohl is a medium and peak load power plant in the Mark-E. It is situated on the Lenne, is obtained from the cooling water. The firing is done with natural gas and coal. The power plant Werdohl - Elverlingsen exists since 1912.

Today in operation blocks that have a combined rated capacity of 693 megawatts, created between 1971 and 1982.

The power plant consists of two coal blocks. The block E3 ( 186 MW) was built in 1971, the block E4 ( 301 MW) in 1982. In 1975, the blocks were built E1 and E2, which are designed as gas and steam turbine plants with 75 MW and 1999 and 2003 for the provision of peak-load power and control energy were converted. In the two coal blocks is about 4,500 tons of coal are converted into electricity daily, which are delivered in trains on the rail. It produces annually about 2.2 billion kilowatt-hours of electrical energy.

The chimney of the block E3, which was built in 1971, is 200 meters, the block of E4, which was built in 1982, 282 meters high. The cooling tower has a height of 106 meters.

The mains connection of the block E3 takes place on the 110- kV high-voltage level and the network connection of the blocks E1 / 2 and E4 on the 220 ​​kV high- voltage level in the power grid of the operator Enervie Asset Network.

In July 2012, it was announced that the Enervie Group in 2014 the coal -fired unit E3 want to take from the grid. Reason were the then necessary investment of about 20 million euros, which would lead to an " incalculable risk ".