STEAG Power Plant Walsum

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Power Plant Walsum

STEAG Power Plant Walsum is a hard coal power station owned by STEAG. It is in the quarter Walsum of Duisburg on the area of the coal mine Walsum. It has an installed output of 600 megawatts (MW). The chimney is with 300 meters height one of the highest chimneys of Germany. The power station supplies not only river but also process steam for the paper factory of the Norske Skog as well as long-distance heating, river and compressed air for the long-distance heating line Niederrhein and the coal mine Walsum. The power station produces annually out approx.. 930,000 tons of hard coal approx.. 2.2 billion a KW/H river, 33 millions a KW/H of long-distance heating, 500,000 t process steam and 250 millions m³ compressed air per year. A coal camp with a capacity of 34.000 t adjusts supply and changes of demand.

[edit] History

At the location Duisburg Walsum were established to 1928 a power plant for the covering of the need of the coal mine Walsum at steam. 1957 were extended it by a power station block (block 6) with 68 MW, 1959 and 1960 followed two power station blocks (block 7 and 8) with 150 MW each. 1988 replaced block 9 with an output of 410 MW the blocks 6 and 8. 2007 are to be begun with the building of the block 10.

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