Ibbenbüren power plant
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| Coordinates | 52 ° 17 '12 " N , 7 ° 44' 47" E | ||
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| Type | Steam power plant | ||
| Primary energy | Fossil energy | ||
| fuel | Hard coal | ||
| power | 848 megawatts | ||
| operator | RWE Generation SE | ||
| Project start | Construction started in 1981 | ||
| Start of operations | 1985 | ||
| boiler | Melting chamber boiler | ||
| Firing | Melting chamber firing | ||
| Chimney height | 275 m | ||
The Ibbenbüren power plant , formerly with the addition of Block B , is a German hard coal power plant . It is located in Ibbenbueren in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia .
Description and history
It was built in July 1981 and originally had an output of 808 megawatts , since the revision in 2009 of 848 megawatts. The power plant with its 275 meter high chimney went online for the first time on June 19, 1985 at 6:05 p.m. for a 30-hour trial run. The official commissioning took place on November 29, 1985 with a symbolic push of a button by the North Rhine-Westphalian Prime Minister Johannes Rau . The power plant is mainly used as a base and medium load power plant .
Until 2019, the power plant was mainly supplied with anthracite coal from the neighboring Ibbenbüren colliery in Tecklenburger Land . This coal is very hard and requires a melting chamber firing. The boiler of the power plant in Ibbenbüren is the largest melting chamber boiler in the world (as of 2005). Every year around 1.4 million tons of anthracite coal are converted into electricity in the power plant. From 2020 after the mine is closed and the coal dumps are dismantled, coal will be used on the world market. For this purpose, RWE AG has acquired the Zechenbahn, the former works railway of the mine.
At the end of the 1980s, the power plant was equipped with the most modern filter technology and systems for flue gas desulphurisation . The power plant currently employs 140 people. The operator of the power plant is RWE Generation SE .
Mains connection
The grid connection is made via the Westerkappeln switchgear and transformer station at the 380 kV maximum voltage level. Up until the 2013 revision, when the machine transformer was replaced, only 220 kV was fed into the power grid of the transmission system operator Amprion . Both the line from the power plant to Westerkappeln and the line from Westerkappeln to the Lüstringen substation, which was built at the same time, were designed for 380 kV when they were built in 1984.
The silhouette of the power station and the Ibbenbüren mine is the most famous Ibbenbüren landmark and is also considered the landmark of the Tecklenburger Land .
Predecessor power plants
The predecessor power plants were located directly to the west:
- Ibbenbüren Power Plant Unit A , which was operated from 1967 to 1987.
- Preussag ballast power station Ibbenbüren , which was in operation from 1954 to 1985.
The first power plant in Ibbenbüren, the Nike power plant in Ibbenbüren , was located directly above Ibbenbüren station .
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ New Ibbenbüren power plant sold electricity for the first time . In: Ibbenbürener Volkszeitung . June 22, 1985.
- ↑ Uwe Gebauer: Ibbenbüren power plant is now on the grid . In: Ibbenbürener Volkszeitung . November 30, 1984, p. 1 .
- ↑ Future of the Ibbenbüren mine railway. Coal should go uphill. In: Westfälische Nachrichten. June 5, 2018, accessed September 11, 2018 .
- ↑ 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 .
