Walheim power plant
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| Coordinates | 49 ° 1 '3 " N , 9 ° 9' 27" E | ||
| country | Germany | ||
| Waters | Neckar | ||
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| Type | Steam power plant , gas turbine power plant | ||
| Primary energy | Fossil energy | ||
| fuel | Coal , light heating oil | ||
| power | 391 megawatts gross | ||
| owner | EnBW | ||
| operator | EnBW | ||
| Start of operations | 1964 | ||
| turbine | 2 steam turbines 1 gas turbine |
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| Chimney height | 150 m | ||
The Walheim power plant is located in the Baden-Württemberg municipality of Walheim am Neckar and is a coal-fired thermal power plant of EnBW Energie Baden-Württemberg with two blocks.
One of the two power plant blocks with an output of 103 megawatts , which went into operation in 1964, was taken to cold reserve in 2000; In 2005 it was reactivated as a replacement for the Obrigheim nuclear power plant . The final shutdown took place on March 31, 2020. The Walheim power plant with its two blocks (96 and 148 megawatts ) also serves to secure the power supply of the Neckarwestheim nuclear power plant (GKN) during the shutdown phases of this plant and is connected to it via a 110 kV overhead line.
There is a gas turbine fired with light heating oil with an output of 130 MW on the power plant site . This can supply electricity to the grid within three minutes starting time by means of a coupled generator .
In the past, the transport casks with spent fuel elements from the Neckarwestheim nuclear power plant were loaded onto railroad cars on the premises of the Walheim power plant . These containers were previously transported by road from the nuclear power plant to Walheim before they were sent by rail to the La Hague reprocessing plant .
In the past, the 150-meter-high chimney of the power plant has often been the scene of Greenpeace protests against the transport of nuclear waste .
EnBW planned to shut down both units in 2014. The reasons are the lack of profitability of the power plant and the additional electricity production by the new power plant blocks in Karlsruhe ( block 8 ) and in Mannheim ( block 9 ).
The planned shutdown was prohibited by the Federal Network Agency on January 15, 2014, so that the two units in Walheim had to be operational by July 4, 2016. EnBW wanted to finally take the blocks out of operation by March 31, 2020, the Federal Network Agency prohibited this and classified the blocks as systemically relevant by March 31, 2023. Only then can the blocks finally go offline.
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- ↑ a b Refining primary energy. (PDF; 3.6 MB) EnBW's fossil-fuel power plants. EnBW Energie Baden-Württemberg AG, p. 22 , accessed on August 1, 2011 .
- ↑ Power plant list of the Federal Network Agency , as of March 7, 2019
- ↑ frz: EnBW wants to shut down four power plant units . In: Heilbronner Voice from July 8, 2013 . ( Stimme.de [accessed on July 8, 2013]).
- ↑ Federal Network Agency: EnBW is not allowed to shut down power plants Stuttgarter Zeitung, January 15, 2014
- ↑ Power plants remain systemically relevant Heilbronn Voice, May 18, 2020
