Farge power station
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| Coordinates | 53 ° 12 '8 " N , 8 ° 31' 1" E | ||
| country | Bremen | ||
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| Primary energy | Hard coal | ||
| power | 350 MW electr. | ||
| owner | Engie Germany AG | ||
| operator | Engie Germany AG | ||
| Start of operations | 1924 old work
1969 Block 1 |
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| Shutdown | 1980 old work | ||
| Website | [1] | ||
| was standing | November 3, 2010 | ||
The Farge power plant is a power plant belonging to the Engie Group in the north of Bremen , in the Farge district on the banks of the Weser . In the course of time, many power plant units with different capacities were built here. Today the power plant has a hard coal block with a net output of 350 megawatts .
business
The power plant burns around 700,000 tons of hard coal per year, which is ground to dust in four coal mills and then burned. The fuel consumption in full load operation is around 100 t / h.
The grid connection exists at the 220 kV maximum voltage level in the grid of the transmission system operator Tennet TSO . An overhead line is run over the Weser.
The residues from the flue gas cleaning are recycled:
- Dried wet ash is used as an aggregate in road construction.
- Fly ash is used as a concrete additive in the construction industry. In 1999 a 70 meter high fly ash silo was built in which up to 15,000 tonnes of hard coal fly ash is temporarily stored. The colored silo is a distinguishing feature of the Farge power plant.
- Gypsum is also used in the construction industry. A barge picks up the plaster of paris produced about twice a month .
In 1993, in a Europe-wide series of tests at the Farger power plant, evidence was provided that residual sludge from sewage treatment plants can be burned together with coal. The sewage sludge co-incineration was put into operation in 2001. Today the residues from the neighboring Farger sewage treatment plant are pumped underground to the power station, dried and burned in the coal boiler.
The power plant is expected to be shut down in 2024.
Supply of coal
In the 1950s and 1960s, the power station was supplied with coal from the Rhineland by rail. Since German coal is no longer competitive on the market, imported coal has been used, which was transferred to an inland ship in Nordenham until 2013 and then delivered directly to the power plant. From April 2013 to summer 2014, the coal was delivered by freight trains from Wilhelmshaven, and since then again by ship, each time using the currently most cost-effective transport routes.The Wilhelmshaven-Farge sea route is not navigable by inland waterway vessels; seaworthy coasters would have to be used for this, which, however (without laborious Conversions) are too big for the power station in Farge.
history
In 1924, after two years of construction, the Farge power plant - at that time still under the name of Kraftwerk Unterweser - started operations with four steam boilers, a 12,500 kilowatt turbine and a workforce of 41 people. The power plant should produce the electricity for the overland areas between the Elbe and the Dutch border. Therefore, at the same time as the power plant between Farge and Berne, the 96-meter high voltage crossing over the Weser was built. Later this 60 kV line connected the Farge power station with the Wiesmoor peat power station and, via Kirchweyhe, also with the neighboring PreussenElektra power grid . Another 60 kV lines led from Farge via Wulsdorf to Cuxhaven and Beckedorf, from where the then independent cities of Blumenthal, Vegesack and Osterholz were supplied. Another 100 kV line led from Farge to the city of Bremen.
As early as 1926, a second turbine set with four more identical boilers brought the plant to double the output of 25 megawatts. Further extensions and additions followed. In the 1950s the output of the power plant was around 150 megawatts. At that time it was one of the few large power plants in Germany. In 1967 the construction of a new power plant block began, which went into operation in 1969. The old plant was dismantled from 1985 to 1990.
owner
In 1922, Siemens Elektro Betriebe AG (SEB) and the Swiss Society for Electrical Industry (Indelec - Société suisse d'Industrie électrique) founded Kraftwerk Unterweser AG . This company commissioned the construction of a power station in Farge. Less than two years later, Kraftwerk Unterweser AG merged with SEB, which separated from the Siemens group of companies in 1925. The majority of the shares were taken over by the Prussian state and the company was renamed Nordwestdeutsche Kraftwerke AG (NWK). The NWK generated and delivered electricity for the north-west German coastal area between the Netherlands and Denmark . Under her direction, the new construction of Block 1 in Farge was started in 1966.
By merging several Prussian power station companies, the Preussische Elektrizitäts AG (PreussenElektra) was founded in 1927 , which in turn had been a subsidiary of the Vereinigte Elektrizitäts- und Bergwerks AG (VEBA) since 1929 . Despite the close ties and cooperation, NWK and PreussenElektra were only merged in 1985. In 2000 VEBA merged with Vereinigte Industrieunternehmungen AG ( VIAG ) to form E.ON AG . The Farge power plant was incorporated into E.ON Kraftwerke GmbH.
In 2009, the Farge power plant was taken over by the GDF-SUEZ group (since 2015 Engie ).
In 2019 it was sold to the American investment company Riverstone Holdings LLC.
Web links
- Website of ENGIE Generation Management GmbH, Farge location
- 3D power plant animation Farge (coal supply: out of date)
- Environmental pollution from coal trains
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- ↑ Federal Network Agency power plant list (nationwide; all network and transformer levels) as of July 2nd, 2012. ( Microsoft Excel file, 1.6 MiB) Archived from the original on July 22, 2012 ; Retrieved July 21, 2012 .
- ↑ SUEZ Kraftwerk Farge ( Memento of the original from October 1, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Farge power station website
- ↑ Farge sewage treatment plant website Hansewasser Bremen. Retrieved November 1, 2010
- ↑ Farge power station will close in eleven years . In: Weserkurier , March 1, 2013. Accessed April 4, 2018.
- ↑ Fewer coal trains - but only for a limited time. Website Nordwest-Zeitung. Retrieved February 25, 2016
- ↑ Kraftwerk Farge ( Memento of the original from January 14, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Farge power station website
- ↑ 40 years of Block 1 - Farge power station ( Memento of the original from December 11, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Website GDF SUEZ Energie Deutschland AG
- ↑ Press release ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Website GDF SUEZ Energie Deutschland AG
- ↑ Patricia Brandt: Farge power station sold. Retrieved February 4, 2020 .
