Wolfsburg North / South thermal power station
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| Coordinates | 52 ° 25 '57 " N , 10 ° 47' 15" E | ||
| country | Germany | ||
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| fuel | coal | ||
| power | 755 MW (thermal), 136 MW (electrical) | ||
| owner | VW Kraftwerk GmbH | ||
| operator | VW Kraftwerk GmbH | ||
| Start of operations | 1939/1962 | ||
| Chimney height | 125 m | ||
The Wolfsburg Nord / Süd combined heat and power plant , unofficially the old combined heat and power plant , is a combined heat and power plant of the Volkswagen plant in Wolfsburg in the city of Wolfsburg in Lower Saxony . With its four tall chimneys, it is a symbol of the city.
history
The south power plant was built from 1938 to 1939 at the same time as the Volkswagen plant and commissioned in 1939. As architects Emil Rudolf Mewes , Karl Kohl Becker , Fritz Schupp and Martin Kremmer responsible.
The North power plant followed from 1960 to 1962. On May 3, 1962, Heinrich Nordhoff , General Director of Volkswagenwerk AG , officially inaugurated the North power plant. In 1961 three of the four chimneys were built, the northernmost tower followed in 1966.
In 1984/1985, the Wolfsburg West thermal power station was also built with two blocks on the VW site. In 1999 the Wolfsburg North / South thermal power station was modernized; the southern part was shut down. While maintaining its character as an industrial monument , the south power plant was converted into an event hall. From 2003 to 2018 cultural events took place there, including dance performances from the annual Movimentos festival .
From 2009 the chimneys were partially renewed. Part of the southern chimneys were demolished and replaced with clinker bricks of the same color. In 2011, plans were announced to replace hard coal with natural gas and heating oil . In 2018, Volkswagen announced that it had decided to switch from coal to a gas and steam turbine system (CCGT) and three hot water boilers. Commissioning should take place by 2022 at the latest. The power plant should then have a thermal output of 386 MW. A 30-kilometer pipeline from Walle to Wolfsburg is to be built for the gas supply .
The power plant is a listed building .
Architecture and use
The cogeneration plant consists of the north and south blocks, which are opposite the Wolfsburg main station on the north side of the Mittelland Canal . The masonry including the chimneys is made of clinker . It fits into the adjoining, approximately 1.3-kilometer-long clinker brick facade to the west, which closes the Volkswagen factory off from the city and ends in the branded high-rise . The four 125-meter-high chimneys of the power plant are on the east side of the building and lie on a straight line in a north-south direction; the distance between the two middle chimneys is slightly greater than the distance between two chimneys of a block, of which the northern chimneys are in turn closer together. An illuminable VW logo with a diameter of around eight meters has been hanging on the side facing the canal since the 1950s.
The power plant is used to supply energy to the Volkswagen factory in Wolfsburg and to supply district heating to the city of Wolfsburg. It was designed as a busbar power station . It uses combined heat and power and contains eight boilers, including - in the north power plant - two steam generators fired with hard coal with circulating fluidized bed combustion with a high degree of utilization . Three further boilers can be operated with natural gas or heating oil. Three additional hot water boilers are available for peak load times during the heating season. The power plant has two extraction condensation turbines . It has a maximum of 755 MW heat output and 136 MW net output.
The southern part has been closed; part of it served as an event room under the name KraftWerk , which offered space for around 1,000 people. As part of the Movimentos festival , the KraftWerk was the venue for dance performances. The festival took place there for the last time in 2018 due to the conversion to gas firing. In addition, concerts were held there, including by the band Kraftwerk , Sting and Rammstein .
On the east side of the city port on the Mittelland Canal, opposite the power plants, large quantities of hard coal were embarked and stored in open spaces until the 1990s . Today there is the Autostadt , which is tempered by an absorption chiller in the power plant. This combined heat, power and cooling system results in an increased degree of fuel efficiency. According to a just-in-time concept, most of the hard coal is now delivered as imported coal from seaports by block trains . Every year around 450 trains with 2,000 tons of coal each run to the Wolfsburg North and West thermal power stations.
During the Advent season , the towers are illuminated from south to north in the dark, analogous to the Advent wreath, by spotlights.
View from the south-southwest
The thermal power station (right) as the eastern end of the VW site to the city, left the brand tower
Lighting in the Advent season
See also
literature
- Nicole Froberg, Ulrich Knufinke, Susanne Kreykenbohm: Wolfsburg. The architecture guide. Braun Publishing, Salenstein 2011, ISBN 978-3-03768-055-1 , p. 36.
Web links
- VW plant, new power plant in the Lower Saxony Monument Atlas
- VW power plant in the Lower Saxony Monument Atlas
- Details of the VW power plants ( Memento from January 1, 2005 in the Internet Archive )
- Volkswagen AG environmental statement on power plants 2012 (PDF; 7.13 MB)
Individual evidence
- ^ Nicole Froberg, Ulrich Knufinke, Susanne Kreykenbohm: Wolfsburg. The architecture guide. Braun Publishing, Salenstein 2011, ISBN 978-3-03768-055-1 , p. 36.
- ↑ Kraftwerk Nord supplies energy. Wolfsburger Nachrichten on May 2, 1962. In: City of Wolfsburg (Hrsg.): 50 years of Wolfsburg in the press. Wolfsburg 1988.
- ↑ Wolfsburger Nachrichten of May 3, 2016, p. 17.
- ↑ a b The power of two works. In: Wolfsburger Nachrichten of March 9, 2014, accessed on March 16, 2014.
- ↑ a b Details of the VW power plants ( Memento from January 1, 2005 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Chronology 2003–2017 at movimentos.de, accessed on April 14, 2018
- ↑ Kraftwerk: VW is considering switching to gas waz-online.de on November 8, 2011, accessed on February 10, 2016.
- ↑ VW converts power plants from coal to gas. regionalbraunschweig.de, March 8, 2018. Retrieved March 8, 2018.
- ↑ ETL 178 Walle - Wolfsburg. gasunie.de, accessed on February 7, 2019
- ↑ Report on chimney renovation at autogramm.volkswagen.de, accessed on July 5, 2013.
- ↑ Wolfsburg: Out for Movimentos in the old Kraktwerk. waz-online.de of March 8, 2018, accessed on March 10, 2018
- ↑ Concept of delivery at rail.dbschenker.de ( Memento of the original from September 18, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 631 kB), accessed on February 10, 2016
