Landesbergen power plant

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Robert Frank power plant in Landesbergen
Landesbergen power plant
Landesbergen power plant
location
Landesbergen power plant (Lower Saxony)
Landesbergen power plant
Coordinates 52 ° 32 '48 "  N , 9 ° 6' 47"  E Coordinates: 52 ° 32 '48 "  N , 9 ° 6' 47"  E
country Germany
Data
Type Combined cycle power plant , biomass cogeneration plant
Primary energy Fossil energy , biomass
fuel Natural gas , biomass
power 530 megawatts of electricity
30 megawatts of district heating
owner Statkraft Germany
operator Statkraft Markets GmbH
Start of operations 1962
turbine Gas turbine , steam turbine
Chimney height 181 m
Energy fed in per year 4,380 GWh
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the power plant from above

The Robert Frank power plant in Landesbergen is a gas and steam combined cycle power plant in the Lower Saxony state of Landesbergen on the Weser , which is operated normally with natural gas and which went into operation in 1962. The name giver for the power plant was Robert Frank (1879–1961), from 1927 to 1933 a member of the first PreussenElektra executive board, then a member of committees of other companies such as RWE . In a description of the power plant by the current operator, Frank only mentions his work on the board of directors for PreussenElektra; "[S] some traces [are] still to be found on the power plant site". In addition, Robert Frank was one of the first clients and close confidante of Albert Speer . From 1945 until his death, he and Speer were involved in extensive secret activities involving Nazi-looted art , while at the same time he was a renowned expert on the energy industry.

The power plant was built by PreussenElektra after natural gas was found in the Weser - Ems region in the 1950s . From there, the gas reaches the power plant via a 50 km long pipeline that crosses under the Weser. It was also important for the selection of the location that the waste heat could be discharged into the Weser with water from the Landesbergen barrage, so cooling towers were unnecessary. The barrage was put into operation in November 1960, and a two-part bridge over the Weser, inaugurated in September 1961, improved the road connection. If necessary, the power plant should also run on oil and coal. For this, cargo ships could have unloaded their cargo in the company's own port, and three storage facilities with a total of 6,000 m³ were built for the oil. Overall, the construction work and the employment of more than 300 people at times in the power plant as well as the settlement of their families led to an economic revitalization of Landesbergen. In 1971, out of gratitude and as a token of solidarity with the power plant, the municipality added a lightning bolt to its municipal coat of arms.

Preussen-Elektra was incorporated into E.ON in 2000 , and the power plant has been operated by Statkraft Germany , based in Düsseldorf , since 2009 .

Natural gas power plant

The power plant originally consisted of up to four units: Unit I was commissioned at the end of 1962, Unit II in the spring of 1963, Unit III followed in 1967. Unit IV, a combined gas and steam unit , was commissioned in 1973. For economic reasons, the first three blocks were later shut down and dismantled together with the chimneys . The nominal output of the remaining Block IV is 510  megawatts , of which 60 MW are attributable to the gas turbine and 450 MW to the steam turbine . The generator of this gas turbine fed into the 60 kilovolts - high-voltage power a, the generator of the steam turbine, however, in the 400 kV high voltage grid . At nominal output, Block IV has a natural gas consumption of 125,000 m³ / h. The power plant used to impress from afar with its four chimneys, the remaining one is 181 meters high. Until 2007 there was a second chimney with a height of 180 meters.

Pan-European network disruption from 2006

On the night of November 4th to 5th, 2006, as a result of a miscalculation by two E.ON engineers in the Lehrte grid control center, the 380 kV Landesbergen-Wehrendorf line, which connects the EON network with that of RWE connects. E.ON then arranged for the interconnection of several lines in the Landesbergen substation in consultation with RWE. Contrary to expectations, this led to a further burden. This was followed by the automatic shutdown of lines, so that the then European power grid UCTE finally split into three sub-networks. In the western sub-network, several million industrial and household customers were disconnected from the power supply for about half an hour until the networks stabilized again due to undersupply.

Biomass cogeneration plant

There is also a biomass cogeneration plant with an electrical output of 20 MW and a district heating output of 30 MW, which was commissioned in 2003. This plant is operated with 130,000 tons of waste wood annually .

Further development

In March 2013, the Supervisory Board decided to shut down the gas power plant in Landesbergen, but the gas turbine would initially be kept operational as a reserve. The biomass cogeneration plant operated on the same site should continue to operate. Statkraft cited "the considerably deteriorated market prospects for gas-fired power plants" as the reason. The absence would probably not lead to a supply disruption. The "closure registration" was submitted to the Federal Network Agency .

Capacity reserve

In February 2020, the gas turbine was awarded a 56 megawatt bid in the transmission system operators' capacity reserve tender. The reserve power must be provided from October 1, 2020 to September 30, 2022.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n Welcome to the ROBERT FRANK location. (PDF 1.1 MB) Statkraft Markets GmbH, accessed on July 29, 2011 .
  2. ↑ Hoppenstedt, manual of the German stock corporations, volume 49, part 4, 1944, pages 3131, 3913
    Bernhard Stier: "State and electricity". Page 316 ff in: Volume 10 of "Technology + Work", writings of the State Museum for Technology and Work in Mannheim (ed.), Verlag Regionalkultur, 1999, ISBN 9783897351073
  3. ↑ Guido Knopp, Mario Sporn (editor) a. a .: "Secrets of the" Third Reich "". Bertelsmann eBooks, 2011, 416 pages, ISBN 9783641065126
  4. ↑ Friedrich Freitag: “Around Landesbergen. Historical images between Meerbach and Weser. Studied from sources, served in Volkston. "1971, Ed .: Municipality of Landesbergen, Weserdruckerei Oesselmann, Stolzenau-Weser, 376 pages, numerous. b / w illustrations, 2 fold-out reproductions.
  5. ↑ Statkraft takes over "Robert Frank" in Landesbergen. July 15, 2009, accessed March 10, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Landesbergen power plant. In: Structurae . Retrieved April 29, 2014 . Asbestos is delaying demolition. Samtgemeinde Mittelweser , January 4, 2008, accessed on April 29, 2014 .
  7. ↑ Udo Leuschner: “Short circuit: how our power supply became more expensive and worse; a critical balance after eight years of "liberalization" of the German energy industry ”. Edition Octopus, 2007, ISBN 9783865824516 , pages 164–167
    Jörn Birkmann u. a .: "State of the art research on the vulnerability of critical infrastructures using the example of electricity, power failure". Page 59 ff in: Public Safety Research Forum, 2010, SN 9783929619638
    John G. Voeller (Ed.): "Energy Systems Security". Publisher John Wiley & Sons, 2014, ISBN 9781118651742 , chapter 2.7
  8. ↑ Landesbergen: Statkraft closes gas power plant. Die Rarke , press review from March 15, 2013
  9. ↑ Friedrich Kunz, Clemens Gerbaulet and Christian von Hirschhausen: “Medium-term coverage of electricity demand by power plants and networks not endangered” in: German Institute for Economic Research: Weekly Report No. 48/2013 of November 27, 2013. pdf 1.6 MB
  10. ↑ Capacity reserve . In: netztransparenz.de. February 28, 2020, accessed February 29, 2020 .