Rhine power station Säckingen
| Rhine power station Säckingen | ||
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| Coordinates , ( CH ) | 47 ° 33 '25 " N , 7 ° 57' 25" O ( 639 012 / 267 487 ) | |
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 Germany
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Bad Säckingen (D) Stein (CH) |
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| Waters | Rhine | |
| Height upstream | 310 m above sea level NN | |
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| operator | Rheinkraftwerk Säckingen AG | |
| construction time | 1961-1966 | |
| Start of operation | July 1966 | |
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| Bottleneck performance | 73.6 megawatts | |
| Expansion flow | 1450 m³ / s | |
| Standard work capacity | 485 million kWh / year | |
| Turbines | 2 × bulb turbines ( Voith ) 2 × bulb turbines ( Escher-Wyss ) |
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| Generators | 4 × three-phase synchron | |
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| Website | www.rksag.de | |
The Säckingen Rhine power plant is a river power plant in the Upper Rhine between the German city of Bad Säckingen and the municipality of Stein in the Swiss canton of Aargau . It stands in a bend in the river a few hundred meters east of the old town of Bad Säckingen.
The operator is the Rheinkraftwerk Säckingen AG . 37.5% of its shares are held by EnBW Energie Baden-Württemberg , 12.5% by EnBW-Beteiligungsgesellschaft Energiedienst Holding AG and 25% each by Axpo AG (operating as Nordostschweizerische Kraftwerke AG, NOK, until 2009) and AEW Energie AG , which is wholly owned by the Canton of Aargau but has a stake in Axpo Holding . EnBW markets electricity from the power plant under the brand name NaturEnergiePlus through a subsidiary.
history
Until the inauguration of the new hydropower plant in Rheinfelden ( Neues Wasserkraftwerk Rheinfelden ) in 2010, the Rheinkraftwerk Säckingen was the youngest hydropower plant on the Upper Rhine between Lake Constance and Basel . The first license was granted in October 1959 until 2046, construction of the power plant began in 1961, and commissioning took place in July 1966. From autumn 2011 until 2016, a fundamental renovation will take place without increasing the output at the same time.
technology
The power plant has an installed capacity of 73.6 megawatts . On average, 485 million kilowatt hours (kWh) of electrical energy are produced each year. The electricity generated by this power plant is shared between Germany and Switzerland. The machine house, built in a functional style, is around 145 meters long and is located in the German half of the Rhine. Four Kaplan turbines with an output of almost 18 megawatts (MW) each are installed horizontally, so that no large expansion space is required. Instead, two gantry cranes run over the turbines and the generators in order to be able to carry out maintenance work. A Kaplan wheel is approximately 7.4 meters in diameter. The weir stands in the extension of the machine house on Swiss territory.
See also
Web links
- Rheinkraftwerk Säckingen AG: Rheinkraftwerk Säckingen - electricity from electricity. Retrieved June 21, 2011 .
- Evening show - Säckingen power plant in shell finished (TV report from December 18, 1965) via ARD media library. Retrieved October 30, 2019.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Rheinkraftwerk Säckingen AG: The core data. Retrieved June 21, 2011 .
- ^ A b Rheinkraftwerk Säckingen AG: The machine house. Retrieved June 21, 2011 .
- ^ Rheinkraftwerk becomes a major construction site , Badische Zeitung , Bad Säckingen edition, December 29, 2009
- ↑ Alemannic pages: Bad Säckingen power plant