Scholven Power Station
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Scholven Power Station is a E.ON owned coal-fired power station in Gelsenkirchen, which has an installed output capacity of 2300 MW as one of the most powerful coal-fired power stations in Europe. Two power station units present on the location were beaconed up to their shut-down with oil. The power produced in the power station Scholven covers about 3% of the German current need. The units B - E, the long-distance heating power station Buer (FWK) and the steam work Scholven (DWS) supply steam to neighbouring chemistry enterprises and long-distance heating to some surrounding cities. The 302 metre high chimneys, which are the second highest in Germany, form an impressing industrial skyline together with the 7 cooling towers. Therefore the power station area and the neighbouring waste dump of the coal mine Scholven scene in the became a film location in the Tatort "The ball in the body" of 1979.
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The power station came out from an enterprise for the covering of the internal requirement at river and steam of the coal mine Scholven. Soon however from it a high performance main power station developed. In the years 1968 to 1971 the almost identically constructed blocks B to E went into enterprise, 1974 and 1975 followed G and H (50 % portion of RWE power), 1979 the block F and at the end of 1985 the long-distance heating power station Buer (FWK). The block G was shut down in summer 2001, the block H finally in summer 2003.
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