Korneuburg power plant
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| Coordinates | 48 ° 19 '54 " N , 16 ° 20' 21" E | ||
| country | Austria | ||
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| Type | Combined cycle power plant (Block 1) | ||
| Primary energy | Fossil energy | ||
| fuel | Natural gas , heavy fuel oil | ||
| power | 455 megawatts | ||
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EVN AG (Block 1) VERBUND-Austrian Thermal Power AG (ATP) (Block 2) |
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EVN AG (Block 1) VERBUND-Austrian Thermal Power AG (ATP) (Block 2) |
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| Start of operations | 1958 | ||
| Chimney height | 160 m | ||
The Korneuburg power plant is a location for energy generation in the Lower Austrian municipality of Langenzersdorf , in the immediate vicinity of the municipality boundary of Korneuburg . It consists of a caloric power plant built in 1958 with two blocks (EVN block and composite block) and a biomass heating plant built by EVN AG in 1995.
Caloric power plant
At the EVN Korneuburg power plant block, a steam turbine and a gas turbine power plant were combined for the first time in Austria in 1958 . The steam turbine is operated by means of high and low pressure steam. The highest electrical output is 154 MW (170 MW in winter), the chimney is 50 meters high. Since Germany's decision to phase out nuclear power in 2011, it has acted as a cold reserve for the German power grid, which enables high-priced, exchange-traded peak electricity to be produced. During the cold spell in 2012 , the block was put back on the grid.
The power plant primarily only generates electricity when too few wind and solar power plants feed into the grid or when it is necessary for grid-related reasons, e.g. for grid stability in eastern Austria or as reserve capacity for southern Germany. The power plant will therefore still be needed in the next few years to enable the system to be converted in the direction of renewable energy.
The composite block - the chimney is 160 meters high - has an electrical output of around 285 MW and was operated with heavy oil by VERBUND Thermal Power GmbH & Co KG until the 1980s , after which it was mothballed as a reserve power plant and decommissioned in 1999/2000. The heating oil was delivered by ship on the Danube or by train.
Jointly used facilities of both power plant blocks are:
- Siebhaus
- Pump house
- Extinguishing water pond
- workshops
- social rooms
- Company Fire Brigade (with the end of the ATP-operation: Acquisition of care by the volunteer fire department Langenzersdorf)
Biomass heating plant
In 2015, an EVN biomass heating plant was built on the site. It transforms wood chips from the region into sustainably generated and environmentally friendly heat for households, businesses and public institutions in Korneuburg and Bisamberg. Each year around 30,000 cubic meters of wood chips (10 trucks per week) from the region are burned in the plant.
The heating boiler, which works with biomass, has an output of 4,800 kW and was installed together with a buffer storage tank to cover the hourly peaks. There is also a natural gas boiler with an output of 10,000 kW as a failure reserve during maintenance work and to cover peak loads on very cold winter days. Operation is remotely monitored and fully automatic.
The flue gas cleaning system filters 99.9% of the dust from the exhaust air and thus avoids the burden of otherwise used individual heating systems.
Network connection
The electricity generated is fed in via overhead lines to the nearby Bisamberg substation of the Austrian Power Grid (APG) and to the Auhof traction power converter station of ÖBB Infrastruktur AG .
The district heating network , which has existed since 1977 and is fed by the Korneuburg power plant , has been expanded to around 9 km in length by EVN Wärme in recent years and is now supplied by the biomass heating plant.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ History of power plant construction ( Memento of the original from January 23, 2013 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. , evn.at
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↑ Changed energy flows: cold is putting Europe's electricity supplier under tension . Verena Kainrath in: derStandard.at , February 9, 2012;
Exceptional situation: Germany taps the cold reserve ( Memento from February 10, 2012 in the Internet Archive ). In: Financial Times Deutschland , February 8, 2012;
Energy: Austria prevents blackout in Germany . Karl Gaulhofer in: diepresse.com , February 9, 2012 - ↑ a b Korneuburg - a power plant location in transition. Retrieved May 22, 2017 .
- ↑ Verbund Annual Report 1996 ( Memento of the original dated February 14, 2015 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. ; P. 63; As of Sept. 5, 2010 (pdf)
- ^ Homepage of the city of Korneuburg, expansion of the Korneuburg district heating network from April 30, 2009 (as of September 5, 2010)
