Uchtelfangen substation

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Uchtelfangen substation
Uchtelfangen - substation 2016 (1) .jpg
Data
place Illingen - Uchtelfangen
Client Rheinisch-Westfälisches Elektrizitätswerk
Construction year 1964
Coordinates 49 ° 22 '32.9 "  N , 6 ° 59' 47.4"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 22 '32.9 "  N , 6 ° 59' 47.4"  E
Uchtelfangen substation (Saarland)
Uchtelfangen substation

The Uchtelfangen switchgear and transformer station is the largest and most important transformer station in Saarland . It is located near the district of the same name in the Illingen community and previously served primarily to feed in the energy generated from the surrounding hard coal-fired power stations . Today, a large part of the Saarland wind power is transported away via the Uchtelfangen substation. It is also an important network node in the European network .

Location and description

The complex is located between the Illingerstraße district Uchtelfangen and Eppelborner district Wiesbachhorn largely on Illingerstraße area. Just east of the terrain which passes A 1 . The plant is located about 15 km north of the state capital Saarbrücken .

The substation has all the usual high voltage levels in Germany (110/220/380 kV). The energy generated from the Saarland coal-fired power plants Weiher , Ensdorf and Bexbach is taken over here via 220 and 380 kV lines and fed into the Western European network . The numerous high and extra high voltage lines shape the surrounding landscape and are particularly easy to recognize from the A 1.

The transformer station is also connected to France via the 380 kV overhead line to the Ensdorf power plant, as a two-circuit, cross-border 380 kV line continues from Ensdorf to Vigy .

Overhead lines

Network operator tension Name of the route
(site number)
Destination / station Remarks
Amprion logo.svg
Amprion
380 kV Bürstadt Head. Bürstadt leads through the Bexbach substation
Bliestal South (4536) Bexbach power plant
Uchtelfangen – Ensdorf (4545) Ensdorf formerly continuous line to Vigy
Uchtelfangen West (4553) Niederstedem
Uchtelfangen East (4553) Osburg
220 kV Connection Uchtelfangen (4538) Weiher power plant designed for 380 kV
Barbara Head St. Barbara ( Bexbach )
Otterbach South Otterbach
Osburg Head. Quint
Uchtelfangen – Ensdorf Ensdorf power plant
VSE 110 kV Uchtelfangen – Heinitz (2411) Heinitz designed for 220 kV
Hilschbach East (140) Fenne
Koellertal North (140) Fenne

history

The substation was put into operation in 1964, at the same time as Block II in the nearby Weiher power plant . In the early 1960s, a two-circuit 380 kV line was built that connects Uchtelfangen via the Niederstedem substation in the southern Eifel with the Oberzier substation in North Rhine-Westphalia . Thus there was a joint operation between the lignite area on the western Lower Rhine and the Saarland hard coal area.

In 1968, another two-circuit interconnector went into operation: This leads from Uchtelfangen to the Bexbach power station , from there north of the Palatinate Forest to the Rhine-Neckar region , where the Bürstadt and Daxlanden substations (near Karlsruhe ) are connected. Daxlanden of a dreikreisige 380 kV line is along the upper Rhine valley to the Southern Black located substation Kühmoos continued.

In 1972, a 104 km long, single-circuit 380 kV connecting line was built between the German and French power grids from Uchtelfangen via Vigy to Bézaumont near Pont-à-Mousson . This had a maximum transmission capacity of 1800 MW and was relocated to Danube masts on both sides of the state border .

In 1992, the transmission system operators RWE and EDF signed a cooperation agreement to expand transmission capacity between the two countries. The line to France was to be increased to a total of 3600 MW transmission capacity by adding a further 380 kV circuit. In 1993, the transformer station was therefore upgraded for the first time and the second circuit after France was put into operation.

At the end of 2002, the technical components were upgraded again in the course of removing operational restrictions that still existed. At the beginning of 2003, the cross-border line was put back into operation.

Until 1999 the facility in Uchtelfangen belonged to the main control center in Brauweiler . Until 1999 it was the seat of the group switching line west, which was responsible for the network management of the RWE high-voltage network in Saarland and parts of Bavaria , Baden-Württemberg , Hesse and Rhineland-Palatinate . Since the restructuring of the RWE Group in 2003, the plant has been owned by RWE Transportnetz Strom GmbH and is maintained by RWE Rhein-Ruhr Netzservice GmbH, Operation Service department.

On September 1, 2009, RWE Transportnetz Strom GmbH was renamed Amprion GmbH. Amprion GmbH is now the owner of all high and extra high voltage facilities of RWE AG. Amprion was spun off from the RWE Group when it was founded and made independent.

The two new hard coal units originally planned for 2012 in the Ensdorf power plant , a project by RWE Power that was abandoned after a referendum in 2007, should also feed their output of 2 × 800 MW into the European network via the facility in Uchtelfangen.

In 2013 the plant was modernized.

On November 4, 2019, Amprion ceremoniously put a new rotating phase shifter from General Electric into operation in the substation in the presence of Anke Rehlinger . Amprion has invested 60 million euros.

Web links

Commons : Umspannanlage Uchtelfangen  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files
  • amprion.net - Official website of the transmission system operator

Individual evidence

  1. Inauguration of the Vigy - Uchtelfangen line. (PDF) Retrieved September 11, 2016 .
  2. The most exciting place in Saarland. In: Saarbrücker Zeitung from August 1, 2013. Retrieved on April 29, 2016 .
  3. Amprion puts rotating phase shifter into operation. In: newspaper for local economy . Association of Municipal Enterprises , accessed on November 6, 2019 .