Heilbronn Power Station

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The Heilbronn Power Station is a hard coal power station in Heilbronn, Germany (49° 10′38.4″ N, 9°12'22.75″ E). It is operated by EnBW, until 1997 EVS and had seven power station blocks. The electrical power of the three blocks in enterprise behaves 950 MW, two blocks with an achievement of approx. 200 MW are in cold reserve.

The plant is in the Heilbronner industrial area at the northern end of the channel port. Inferred over the Neckar the necessary cooling water, at the same time is made the delivery of the hard coal by inland waterway craft by the river. The blocks 1 to 6 with an achievement of approx. in each case. 100 MW were built in the 1950er and 1960er years, whereby the two first blocks were in the meantime shut down and the blocks 3 and 4 the cold reserve to form. Between 1964 and 1966 built blocks 5 and 6 still is in enterprise. In the years 1982 to 1986 the block 7 with an output of 750 MW was built as mean load power station, but new, 140 m a high cooling tower and a high chimney developed for 250 m. The block had from the outset a fluegas desulphuration and a denitrification. Because of amending the large firing plant regulation in the 1983 both had to be re-tooled also for the blocks 5 and 6, so that continued using was possible. Additionally for both blocks a second chimney in same design and height was built as with block 7. The two chimneys are the highest buildings in Heilbronn and are recognizable as landmarks from far away. Via a force heat coupling industrial companies in Heilbronn and Neckarsulm are supplied by the power station additionally with long-distance heating.

Since 1998 the plant has a permission for the burning of sewage sludge, since 2003 may do additionally also petrolkoks are fired. A shut down block of the power station is used since 1988 as meeting centre (block E).