Industrial power station Wählitz
| Industrial power station Wählitz | |||
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| Coordinates | 51 ° 10 ′ 1 " N , 12 ° 4 ′ 33" E | ||
| country | Germany | ||
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Lignite power plant combined heat and power |
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| Primary energy | Fossil energy | ||
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Brown coal ( Central German brown coal region ) |
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| power | 37 megawatts (as of 2019) | ||
| owner | EP Energy | ||
| operator | MIBRAG | ||
| Start of operations | 1994 | ||
| Website | https://www.mibrag.de/ | ||
The industrial power plant Wählitz is a lignite power plant in Wählitz , a district of Hohenmölsen in the Burgenland district in Saxony-Anhalt . The complex is operated as a CHP plant by Mitteldeutsche Braunkohlengesellschaft mbH (MIBRAG).
Emergence
On August 25, 1994, after a two-year construction period, the Wählitz industrial power plant was connected to the grid on the basis of combined heat and power . It replaced the 70-year-old power plant on the site of the former Wählitz briquette factory. The new building was financed with public funds through the Treuhandanstalt and the Federal Environment Ministry . The total investment was 200 million Deutschmarks . The trust transferred the power plant to MIBRAG , which could only be privatized in the year the power plant was commissioned.
business
The operation includes the production of electricity for the opencast mines of MIBRAG as well as the generation of district heating for individual public, commercial and private households in Hohenmölsen and the surrounding area. The power plant is connected to the industrial railway network of the Profen opencast mine and is supplied with two trains of raw lignite every day. The coal reaches a fluidized bed boiler via conveyor belts and is burned at 850 degrees Celsius. Every day, 120 tons of fly ash and slag are produced , which, according to company publications, are dumped into open-cast mining holes or used in road construction. In addition to the raw lignite, sewage sludge as well as animal meal and blood fat are also burned in the furnace .
Like every brown coal power plant , the industrial power plant Wählitz has a very high daily consumption of drinking water . The average requirement of a CHP system per generated kilowatt hour of electricity is 2.6 liters. 150 tons of water vapor are produced every hour in the Wählitz power station. The operator of the power plant does not have to pay a water abstraction tax, nor does it have to pay a subsidy tax . In addition, according to a special regulation , the company is exempt from paying the EEG surcharge , since according to the operator, the electricity generated is used for own consumption in the MIBRAG opencast mines.
Planned shutdown
In its final report submitted to the Federal Government on January 26, 2019, the Commission for Growth, Structural Change and Employment came to the conclusion that the industrial power plant in Wählitz had been "adapted to the needs of a modern power plant and processing location". The commission recommends ending the power plant operation in Wählitz in the medium to long term and connecting the site to the existing gas network on an industrial scale. According to the resolution, all lignite power plants in Germany are to be shut down by 2038 at the latest.
See also
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ MIBRAG self-disclosure on the MIBRAG homepage , accessed on March 4, 2019.
- ↑ Ten years of Kraftwerk Wählitz Strom-Magazin dated August 31, 2004, accessed on March 3, 2019.
- ↑ Joachim Fröhler: The Privatization of the East German Energy Industry 1989–1997. Eurotrans-Verlag, 2001, p. 103 f.
- ^ Carsten Drebenstedt, Mahmut Kuyumcu: Brown coal renovation . Springer-Verlag, 2014, p. 17.
- ↑ Andreas Berkner: On the brown coal road. Pro Leipzig eV, 2003, p. 273 f.
- ^ MIBRAG (Ed.): Kraftwerk Wählitz visitor information. Zeitz 2016, p. 2.
- ↑ Industrial railways in central German lignite mining. (= LMBV changes and perspectives. Issue 20). 2016, accessed on March 4, 2019, p. 25.
- ↑ Wählitz power station. In: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung . October 14, 2003, accessed March 4, 2019.
- ^ MIBRAG (Ed.): Kraftwerk Wählitz visitor information. Zeitz 2016, p. 4.
- ↑ Dioxin pollution in Saxony-Anhalt KA 6/7161. State Parliament of Saxony-Anhalt, printed matter 6/428, pp. 2-4, accessed on March 3, 2019.
- ^ Coal piles consume water for a billion people Strom-Magazin dated March 22, 2016, accessed on March 3, 2019.
- ↑ Electricity generation and water consumption Bund der Energieverbumpen , accessed on March 3, 2019.
- ↑ Industriekraftwerk Wählitz Homepage MIBRAG, accessed on March 3, 2019.
- ↑ GRÜNE on the exemption of lignite from the EEG surcharge Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen press release of May 14, 2014, accessed on March 3, 2019.
- ↑ Massive eco-discounts for lignite companies Der Spiegel from January 16, 2014, accessed on March 3, 2019.
- ^ Final report of the commission "Growth, Structural Change and Employment" (p. 249) . Minority Secretariat of the four autochthonous national minorities and ethnic groups, accessed on March 3, 2019.