Rur pumped storage power plant
| Rur pumped storage power plant | ||
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| Coordinates | 50 ° 38 '24 " N , 6 ° 20' 28" E | |
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 Germany
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| place | Simmerath | |
| Waters | Rursee | |
| power plant | ||
| owner | Trianel | |
| operator | Trianel | |
| construction time | from 2016 | |
| Start of operation | after 2020 | |
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| Bottleneck performance | 640 megawatts | |
| Average height of fall |
240 m | |
| Expansion flow | 340 m³ / s | |
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The Rur pumped storage power plant was a planned pumped storage power plant in connection with the Rur reservoir in Simmerath in the Eifel . The project has been withdrawn and will not be implemented. The applicant has withdrawn its plans. The social and political resistance to the 700 million euro project was too great. At its meeting on October 11, 2013, the regional council concluded the planning with a negative majority vote. The start of construction was planned for 2016, the commissioning of the plant after 2020.
Planning details
The project of the energy supply company Trianel envisaged using the Rur dam (also known under the name Rursee) as a lower basin and building an upper basin with 7.6 million m³ storage capacity on a 220 m higher site . The area of the wind farm north of state road 246 was planned as the location . To the north-east of the Simmerath district of Strauch, the upper basin was to be built with an area of around 60 football fields and a capacity of 7.6 million cubic meters of water. The plan was to have a power plant output of 640 MW and a three-kilometer-long tunnel between the dam and the basin, which should lead the water to the turbines with a volume flow of 340 m³ / s. The Rurtalsperre, which is operated by the Eifel-Rur Water Association (WVER), is the second largest reservoir in Germany with a storage volume of 203.2 million m³.
The efficiency of the pumped storage plant should be 80%. Under full load, it could have generated electricity for six hours. The area of the upper basin would have taken up 80 ha (including the ring dam), the water surface should be 50 ha. According to a study by the engineering company HPI Hydroprojekt , the required minimum water level should be achieved on 99 percent of the operating days.
The state government in North Rhine-Westphalia under Hannelore Kraft had committed itself to the project in its coalition agreement for the years 2012 to 2017.
criticism
The operation of the pumped storage power plant, which with 640 MW would be the fourth largest of its kind in Germany, would cause fluctuations in the Rursee level of up to 2 meters. In addition to the possible negative effects this could have on the flora and fauna around the Rursee, residents and leisure users feared that a pumped storage power plant could make the tourism and local recreation location Rursee less attractive. In a statement on the project from June 2012, the community of Rursee sports clubs has so far been in an intensive dialogue with the project sponsor Trianel and the authorities, but called for the clarification of open questions and constructive cooperation in the further course of the project. The citizens' initiative “Rettet den Rursee e. V. "formed.
literature
- Wolfgang Kempkens: Breakthrough after Fukushima? In: image of science . Edition 11/2011, p. 94 ( online ).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ René Benden: No energy from the Rursee. In: Aachener Nachrichten. June 21, 2013, accessed June 12, 2019 .
- ↑ No pumped storage power plant in the Eifel ( Memento from June 23, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) WDR from June 21, 2013
- ↑ Data and facts ( Memento from February 26, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ Rheinische Post of April 29, 2013: page A3
- ^ Coalition agreement between the SPD and the Greens in North Rhine-Westphalia for the years 2012 to 2017 (see page 54) (PDF; 951 kB)
- ↑ Procedural documents for the application to amend the regional plan ( Memento of November 4, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 4.8 MB)
- ↑ Opinion No. 2 on the Rur water storage power plant of the community of sports clubs on the Rursee ( Memento of March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 92 kB)