Community power plant Veltheim
| Community power plant Veltheim | |||
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| Coordinates | 52 ° 11 '23 " N , 8 ° 56' 0" E | ||
| country | Germany | ||
| place | Veltheim (Porta Westfalica) | ||
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| Type | Steam power plant | ||
| Primary energy | Fossil energy | ||
| fuel | Hard coal / petroleum coke / substitute fuel (block 1–3), natural gas / heating oil (block 4) | ||
| power | a total of 892 MW (electrical) :
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| owner | Uniper power plants 66.7%, Bielefeld municipal utilities 33.3% | ||
| operator | Veltheim GmbH community power plant | ||
| Start of operations | 1970 (block 1–3) 1975 (block 4) |
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| Shutdown | 2000 (Block 1), from March 28, 2015 of the entire power plant | ||
| Chimney height | 140 m | ||
| Energy fed in 2012 | 1,388 GWh | ||
| was standing | 2015 | ||
 Veltheim community power station, view from the southeast |
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The Veltheim joint power plant was a large-scale power plant in Veltheim , a district of the East Westphalian city of Porta Westfalica . The plant is located on the right bank of the Weser , which was used for cooling; the solid fuels were delivered by rail and road.
In the last operating phase, the owners were Uniper Kraftwerke GmbH and Stadtwerke Bielefeld . The power plant was shut down in 2015 and the power plant site was sold on February 1, 2018 after two years of vacancy. Today it is owned by the development company GKW Veltheim, which plans to demolish large parts of the facilities by 2021. The power plant had an installed capacity of 892 megawatts . Above all, hard coal and natural gas as well as petroleum coke and heating oil were burned . Secondary fuels have also been allowed to be burned in the power plant since 2003 .
Structure and technical data
The power plant had four units , three of which were still in operation until March 2015:
| block | electrical power (MW) | fuel | Installation | Shutdown |
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| 1 | 100 MW | Hard coal (+ petroleum coke) | 1960 to 1970 | 2000 |
| 2 | 100 MW | 2015 | ||
| 3 | 300 MW | |||
| 4th | 400 MW | Combined gas / heating oil block | 1975 |
The power plant had no cooling towers and cooled the secondary circuit using the water taken from the Weser.
history
The Veltheim community power station was founded in 1959 as the Weser community power station by the shareholders of Stadtwerke Bielefeld (represented by the subsidiary Interargem), the Minden-Ravensberg power station and the Wesertal power station .
In 2003 E.ON took over Elektrizitätswerke Minden Ravensberg and thus became the new majority shareholder in the Veltheim joint power plant, in which Stadtwerke Bielefeld continued to hold 33%.
In 2004, the Weser joint power station at the Veltheim location was renamed together with the high-voltage network into the new Veltheim community power station . In this way, the conventional electricity generation, as opposed to nuclear electricity generation, was bundled in the Grohnde nuclear power plant . These two power plants were operated by the same community of owners.
E.ON wanted to withdraw from its stake in the Veltheim power station in 2008 in order to obtain 100% of E.ON Sverige (formerly Sydkraft) under antitrust law. However, this has not been implemented.
In November 2013, the managing director announced that the Veltheim joint power station would be shut down from March 2015 due to the changed framework conditions. Electricity was last produced on March 27, 2015. The Veltheim GmbH community power plant also included a decommissioned gas turbine with 60 megawatts in Ummeln (Bielefeld) .
During the refugee crisis in Germany in 2015/2016 , the former office buildings of the power plant were used as emergency accommodation for refugees until 2016 .
The power plant site was sold on February 1, 2018 after two years of vacancy and is owned by the development company GKW Veltheim , which plans to demolish large parts of the facilities by 2021.
On July 10, 2019, a fire broke out on the site of the decommissioned power plant during the demolition work, in which parts of the old buildings collapsed. This mainly affected the flue gas desulphurisation system, which burned out completely
The site of the former power plant site is to be converted in the future. For this purpose, both the regional plan for Ostwestfalen Lippe by the Detmold district government and the land use plan for the city of Porta Westfalica are being adjusted. The aim is, on the one hand, to maintain the location for the energy supply in the northern section, where the substation is located. The power plant area is to be converted into a general commercial and industrial area. The sub-area south of the railway line is to be secured as open space for agricultural use and landscape-oriented recreation.
The dismantling of the power plant is delayed, so the demolition of a chimney planned for December 2019 was postponed.
Fuels
Standard fuels
The power plant was initially licensed as a hard coal power plant, although since the operating license was amended in 2004, hard coal could also be supplemented with petroleum coke. The substitute fuels must not overload the sulfur filter. Unit 4 was equipped with a gas turbine that could also be operated with heating oil.
Secondary fuels
On 9 April 2003, the authorized State Agency for the Environment and Safety OWL (StAfUA) co-incineration of animal meal and sewage sludge up to a maximum of 20% of each driven heat input in blocks 2 and 3 was On 13 October 2005 the power station by the StAfUA grants the modification permit according to the Federal Immission Control Act to co - incinerate secondary fuels. These are legally defined substitute fuels, mostly thermally usable waste as well as sewage sludge and animal meal. The amount of burned additives was limited to a maximum of 12% of the respective thermal output used. The plant was designed to burn up to 100 tons of substitute fuel per day. Block 3 had a furnace that allowed combustion temperatures of over 1600 degrees Celsius. In addition, the exhaust gas purification systems met the requirements of the 17th Federal Immission Control Ordinance for waste incineration . The operators assumed that these temperatures would enable residue-free burning of the secondary raw materials and that the legal limit values were complied with.
Mains connection
The grid connection was made on the 110 or 220 kV high voltage level in the grid of Netz Veltheim GmbH . In 2015 it was bought by the transmission system operator Tennet .
criticism
A citizens' initiative called “A clean environment without waste incineration in the Veltheim community power plant” was founded against the burning of secondary fuel. The main reason was negative environmental impacts as a result of emissions from the power plant when the fuel was changed.
The amendment approval from 2005 on the co-incineration of secondary fuel was the subject of several administrative appeal proceedings and actions for rescission . Both urgent applications against the change permit were rejected in 2006.
In the main proceedings, three residents, the city of Porta Westfalica and the Porta Westfalica public utilities , sued against the change permit for the co-incineration of secondary fuel. In the meantime, the Detmold district government was the responsible approval authority. All complaints were dismissed as unfounded by the OVG North Rhine-Westphalia :
“In particular, it is unlikely that the co-incineration of secondary fuels could lead to unreasonable exposure to air pollutants. The emission limit values stipulated in the change permit correspond to the requirements of the Large Combustion Plant Ordinance (17th BImSchV), which regulate the requirements for incineration and co-incineration of waste. The change approval also ensures sufficiently that the specified emission limits are actually complied with. This is particularly evidenced by the fact that the secondary fuels did not have a higher pollutant content than the substitute fuels, meat and bone meal and sewage sludge, which had already been approved for co-incineration by the earlier modification permit. The city of Porta Westfalica will not violate its planning sovereignty as a result of the change permit. "
Others
The free music festival festivalkult! Has been held annually since 2007 on the southern open space between Kraftwerk and Weser . with around 20,000 visitors.
Individual evidence
- ^ Community power plant Veltheim, history ( memento from April 21, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) accessed in May 2010.
- ↑ Energy Chronicle accessed in May 2010
- ↑ Mindener Tageblatt: Kraftwerk Veltheim closes in 2015 ( Memento of December 14, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Online edition of December 3, 2013, accessed on December 4, 2013
- ^ Westfalenblatt Bielefeld, edition of March 27, 2015
- ↑ Eon registers power plants for decommissioning. In: energate messenger. December 20, 2013, accessed September 1, 2019 .
- ↑ Power plant becomes emergency shelter. 300 refugees are accommodated in vacant office buildings. In: Westfalen-Blatt . September 11, 2015, accessed July 11, 2019 .
- ↑ Mindener Tageblatt: Kraftwerk Veltheim sells edition of February 2, 2018, accessed on April 12, 2018
- ↑ a b Situation at the Veltheim power plant is still tricky. In: Mindener Tageblatt . January 3, 2020, accessed January 31, 2020 .
- ↑ Major fire at the Veltheim power plant - fire ignited during demolition work. In: Mindener Tageblatt . Retrieved July 10, 2019 .
- ↑ Schaumburger Nachrichten: Fire extinguished at Veltheim power station: structural engineer appraises ruin issue of July 11, 2019, accessed on July 15, 2019
- ↑ 116. Amendment to the FNP "Conversion of the former location of the Veltheim community power station". City of Porta Westfalica , accessed on July 10, 2019 .
- ↑ Mindener Tageblatt of January 28, 2004 ( Memento of November 8, 2004 in the Internet Archive ) accessed in May 2010
- ↑ Mindener Tageblatt of March 6, 2010 ( Memento of April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) accessed in May 2010
- ↑ Answer of the state government to a request from the state parliament member Inge Howe of March 12, 2007 ( Memento of June 28, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 19 kB) accessed in May 2010
- ↑ Tennet acquires Netz Veltheim. In: Legal Tribune Online . July 13, 2015, accessed February 17, 2019 .
- ^ OVG North Rhine-Westphalia , decision of July 5, 2006, 8 B 379 / 06.AK 8 B 212 / 06.AK
- ↑ Urgent applications against the use of so-called secondary fuels in the Veltheim joint power station in Porta Westfalica rejected. OVG North Rhine-Westphalia , July 6, 2006, accessed on July 12, 2019 .
- ^ OVG Nordrhein-Westfalen , judgment of December 3, 2008, 8 D 19 / 07.AK 8 D 21 / 07.AK 8 D 22 / 07.AK
- ^ OVG Nordrhein-Westfalen , judgment of December 3, 2008, 8 D 15 / 07.AK
- ^ OVG Nordrhein-Westfalen , judgment of December 3, 2008, 8 D 14 / 07.AK
- ↑ Lawsuits against the Veltheim power station dismissed. OVG North Rhine-Westphalia , December 4, 2008, accessed on July 12, 2019 .
- ↑ festivalkult.de