West thermal power station (Karlsruhe)
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| Coordinates | 49 ° 0 '52 " N , 8 ° 20' 53" E | ||
| country | Germany | ||
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| Type | District heating, peak load | ||
| Primary energy | natural gas | ||
| owner | Stadtwerke Karlsruhe | ||
| operator | Stadtwerke Karlsruhe | ||
| Start of operations | April 10, 1901 | ||
| Chimney height | 140 m | ||
The heating power plant West is a reserve and peak load power plant of the Stadtwerke Karlsruhe . It is located at the Rheinhafen in the west of Karlsruhe . In accordance with the power plant management , it runs mainly in the morning hours and sometimes all day in the winter months. In addition to generating district heating, it could also generate electricity and houses the central network control center for the Karlsruhe district heating supply. The chimney of the power plant is 140 meters high.
history
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As early as 1891, a public tender for a power plant in Karlsruhe was held. Today's heating and power station West was put into operation on April 10, 1901 after a month of trial operation as the "Electrical Central Station for Light and Power Supply" and was still fired with coal at that time. In 1993, the firing with environmentally harmful heavy oil was given up and today the power plant is mainly operated with natural gas .
The waste heat from the power station has been used since 1951 and fed into the network as district heating. Today the power plant mainly produces district heating and has only been used twice for electricity production since 2014 (as of September 2019).
literature
- Ernst Otto Bräunche (Ed.): Rheinhafen Karlsruhe 1901–2001 (Publication by the Karlsruhe City Archives ; Vol. 22). Info-Verlag, Karlsruhe 2001, ISBN 978-3-88190-270-0 .
