Offleben power plant
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| Coordinates | 52 ° 8 '48 " N , 11 ° 1' 45" E | ||
| country | Germany | ||
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| Type | Steam power plant | ||
| Primary energy | Fossil energy | ||
| fuel | Brown coal | ||
| owner | Braunschweig Coal Mines (BKB) | ||
| Project start | 1952 | ||
| Start of operations | 1954 | ||
| Shutdown | 2002 | ||
| Chimney height | 207 m | ||
| Energy fed in since commissioning | approx. 126,000 GWh | ||
The Offleben power station was a lignite power station near Offleben in the Helmstedt lignite district . The power plant, which went into operation in 1954, initially had an output of 100 megawatts - by 1973 this was increased to 770 megawatts. The plant was partially shut down in 1990 and finally shut down in 2002.
history
The Offleben power plant was part of the operation of the Braunschweigischen Kohlen-Bergwerke (BKB). Due to the border closure between the GDR and the FRG on May 26, 1952 , the company lost both overburden areas and the Harbke power plant , as these were now located in the GDR territory. These deficits should be replaced by own power plant construction on the West German side. Planning and construction took only two years. In 1954, the first block of the Offleben power plant was put into operation. When the opencast mine near Helmstedt was coaled out in 2002 and the power plant was deprived of its operational basis, it was shut down on August 9, 2002. This was associated with the loss of numerous jobs and dwindling tax revenues for the former municipality of Büddenstedt .
The power plant's 207 meter high chimney was blown up on September 29, 2006.
Furnishing
Offleben power plant was divided into
- Offleben 1, a busbar power station with seven boilers and five turbine sets and
- Offleben 2, which was built in three power plant blocks (A, B and C). Block A and Block B each had 125 megawatts (MW), while Block C, which was built in 1972, had an output of 325 MW. In total, the entire system has produced around 126 million megawatt hours of electrical energy in the course of its existence.
Web links
- Virtual museum of abandoned places → KW Offleben
- Aerial photo of the power plant, in the background the Buschhaus power plant images.robertharding.com
Individual evidence
- ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original dated August 7, 2009 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.
- ↑ http://www.stuecksicht.de/html/bkw_offleben.html
