Wuppertal-Elberfeld thermal power station
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| Coordinates | 51 ° 14 '54 " N , 7 ° 7' 10" E | ||
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| Type | Thermal power station | ||
| Primary energy | Fossil energy | ||
| fuel | Hard coal | ||
| power | 100 megawatts of electricity 201 megawatts of district heating |
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| operator | Wuppertal public utilities | ||
| Start of operations | 1900 | ||
| Shutdown | 2018 | ||
| Firing | Fluidized bed combustion | ||
| Chimney height | 198 m | ||
The Wuppertal-Elberfeld combined heat and power plant is a decommissioned coal-fired combined heat and power plant in the Kabelstrasse in Wuppertal- Elberfeld. It was inaugurated in 1900 and was the second power station built in the then independent town of Elberfeld . Since then, the power plant has been modernized and rebuilt several times.
business
In 1969 the company switched to running on natural gas . Due to rising gas prices, however, this became uneconomical and so the furnace was converted back to hard coal during a comprehensive modernization in 1989. At the same time, the 198 meter high chimney was rebuilt and the older, less than half as high chimney removed.
Since the renovation, the power plant chimney has been the tallest structure in Wuppertal and the furnace consists of a modern fluidized bed furnace . Up to 100 MW could be generated in the form of electrical energy and an additional 201 MW could be fed into the municipal district heating network. The cooling took place with water from the Wupper .
The power plant was operated according to demand and the output was adapted to the demand for electricity and heat. In the summer months it often runs under partial load with only one boiler, since relatively little district heating is required.
On July 7, 2018, the power plant was officially shut down with the commissioning of the new district heating pipe. The district heating supply will in future be ensured via the waste incineration plant in Wuppertal , for which the connection line to the local district heating network was put into operation. The conversion should save around 450,000 tons of carbon dioxide per year .
Horst for peregrine falcons
In autumn 2001, a nest for peregrine falcons was attached to the chimney at a height of 100 meters with the support of the Wuppertal Forest District. This eyrie has been adopted every year since then and young birds have hatched. The Wuppertal public utilities , which are the operator of the power plant, have set up two webcams so that you can watch the birds.
Web links
- Wuppertal-Elberfeld thermal power station. In: Structurae
- Heizkraftwerke Wuppertal Information page of the WSW about the power plant
Individual evidence
- ^ History of the power supply in Wuppertal and Germany ( Memento from September 27, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) History of the energy supply in Wuppertal
- ^ Wolfgang Stock: Wuppertal street names . Thales Verlag, Essen-Werden 2002, ISBN 3-88908-481-8 .
- ↑ shutdown this month. Elberfeld thermal power station: one last visit . In: Wuppertaler Rundschau , May 16, 2018. Retrieved May 17, 2018.
- ↑ Work on the new district heating pipe has started . Press release from WSW Wuppertaler Stadtwerke . Retrieved May 18, 2018.
- ↑ WSW celebrate the end of the coal era on Saturday . In: Westdeutsche Zeitung , July 7, 2018. Accessed July 7, 2018.
- ↑ Peregrine falcons in the focus of the webcam ( Memento from June 12, 2007 in the Internet Archive ). Live images from the eyrie at the Elberfeld thermal power station
- ↑ Wuppertal: Peregrine falcons breed on power plant chimney The news of April 12, 2007 wdr.de