Schwandorf coal-fired power station
| Schwandorf-Dachelhofen ("Else") power plant | |||
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| Coordinates | 49 ° 18 '11 " N , 12 ° 4' 39" E | ||
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 Germany
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| Type | coal-fired power station | ||
| Primary energy | Fossil energy | ||
| fuel | Lignite (until 1982 the Upper Palatinate lignite district , later the Czech Republic ) | ||
| power | 700 MW | ||
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Bayerische Braunkohlen-Industrie AG → Bayernwerk → E.ON Kraftwerke |
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| Start of operations | 1930 | ||
| Shutdown | 2002 (demolished until 2005) | ||
| Chimney height | 2 × 235 m | ||
The coal power plant Schwandorf (also Kraftwerk Schwandorf , power plant Dachelhofen , Bayernwerk or power plant "Else" called) was a brown coal power station in the district Dachelhofen the city Schwandorf in the Upper Palatinate . The plant, built in 1930, was shut down in 2002 and demolished until 2005.
Until 1982, the fuel was transported by rail from the open-cast mines in the nearby Upper Palatinate district near Wackersdorf and Steinberg am See . After the stocks there were exhausted, the coal for the remaining operating years came from the Czech Republic . It was switched to hard lignite.
The cooling tower of the power plant burned out on May 12, 2003 as a result of welding work during the demolition. The power plant with its two chimneys each 235 meters high was blown up on February 18, 2005. Only the switchgear is still in operation as a 380/110 kV substation .
Web links
- Positive examples of land recycling in contaminated sites, brown coal power plant in Dachelhofen , PDF; 3 pages, Bavarian State Office for the Environment, accessed on October 18, 2015.
- Extraction of raw materials and energy generation // Aspects of lignite mining and electricity generation in today's Schwandorf district
- History of mining in the Upper Palatinate
- Pictures from the coal-fired power plant in Schwandorf (Bayernwerk, Kesselhaus) , before, from and after the blasting in 2004.