Wilhelmshaven Power Station (E.ON)

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The power plant in Wilhelmshaven is a German coal-fired power plant in Wilhelmshaven. It is in Rüstersieler Groden directly on the dike to Jadefahrwasser south of the emerging power plant of GDF Suez. Operators of the power plant is the E.ON power plants GmbH.

Existing power plant

The power plant has an electrical output of 756 megawatts and was built in the mid-1970s. The plant was commissioned in 1976. It covers the mid-load demand and has an operating time of up to 6,000 hours per year. In the power plant about 6,000 tons of coal are needed daily. The power plant is located supply technically favorable, as in the near- deep depth of the Jade Bay can create ships with a cargo capacity of up to 100,000 tons of coal. The power plant, which has a 275 -meter-high chimney, desulfurized first thing in the Federal Republic of its fumes. The ash from the ESPs and the gypsum from the desulphurization be taken over by the construction industry for further use. 1998 achieved a performance increase of 42 MW by installing a turbine branch and at the same time, reduced by 200,000 tons per year with the same fuel use and CO2 emissions. In 2002, the entire regulation and control has been completely renewed, now allows for fully automatic operation. The commissioning of a Klärschlammmitverbrennungsanlage the end of 2004 for the disposal of municipal sewage sludge as well as the construction of a plant for waste petroleum coke, including additional opportunities have been created to conserve the resource coal.

Plant in the south of the power plant site

Sewage into Jadefahrwasser

Expansion of the power plant

Plans by E.ON

Since 2009, plans of E.ON ran to a second power block, an extension of the existing power plant by 550 megawatts. The commissioning was scheduled for the year 2015. A special feature of the new building was planned efficiency because with this power plant for the first time, an efficiency of about 50 % should be achieved at a coal-fired power plant. E.ON led the power plant project, therefore, under the name " 50plus Power Plant ". On 14 April 2010, E.ON announced surprise to the stop of the plans. The reason given was that " do not yet meet the technology and materials to claims, to operate such a plant economically and safely too."

New power plant by GDF Suez

In September 2008 in the neighborhood of the E.ON power plant, the foundation stone for the construction of a 800 MW power plant of GDF Suez. The coal power plant to become operational in 2014.