RDK (Karlsruhe) power station
{{#badges: CoalSwarm|Navbar-Germanyandcoal}} RDK (Karlsruhe) power station, also known as the Rheinhafen power station, is a 1,460-megawatt (MW) coal-fired power station in Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany.
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Location
The undated satellite below shows the power station in Karlsruhe.
Background
The power station consisted of the following coal- and gas-fired units:[1]
- Units 1 & 2: 64 MW each
- Units 3: 100 MW
- Unit 4S: 353 MW
- Units 5 & 6: 180 MW each
- Unit 7: 550 MW
- Unit 8: 912 MW
The first seven units were commissioned from 1955 to 1985, and unit 8 in 2014. Units 1 to 3 have been shut down since the 1980s; both oil and gas-fired units 5 and 6 are since 1993 in cold reserve, meaning they can start operating again after an interval. Unit 4S is a combined cycle natural gas-fired plant, which has been used for reserve power since 2017.[2] The coal-fired power plant unit 7 has been used for intermediate load and coal-fired unit 8 for baseload.[3]
Unit 8
In April 2008 Power in Europe listed the project status as being "tendering, proposed" with a notional commissioning date of 2011/2012. It also listed the installed capacity as being in the range of 890-912 megawatts with "400?" in brackets. The project was approved by the ENBW board in December 2006. The newsletter also noted that the company was also "actively investigating" a 400 megawatt combined cycle gas turbine plant on the same site. Both the projects are slated as replacement for nuclear power stations set to be retired.[4]
According to a November 2012 report by Deutsche Umweltshilfe, the project was under construction with expected completion in 2013.[5]
Unit 8 was commissioned in 2014 with a capacity of 910 MW.[3][1]
Project Details
- Sponsor: Energie Baden-Württemberg
- Parent company: EnBW AG
- Location: Karlsruhe, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany
- Coordinates: 49.013306, 8.305416 (exact)
- Coal Type: Bituminous
- Gross capacity (operating):
- Coal-fired: 1,462 MW
- Unit 7: 550 MW[1] (start-up 1984)[6] Subcritical
- Unit 8: 912 MW[1] (start-up 2014)[6] Ultra-supercritical
- Gas-fired: 353 MW
- Coal-fired: 1,462 MW
Articles and Resources
Sources
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 "Fossil fuel" EnBW, accessed December 2019
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Das Rheinhafen-Dampfkraftwerk Karlsruhe, ENBW
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Karlsruhe RDK 7 and 8 Power Plant Germany," GEO, accessed April 2016
- ↑ "PiE’s new power plant project tracker – April 2008", Power in Europe, Issue 523, April 7, 2008, page 21.
- ↑ "Projects of coal-fired power plants in Germany since 2007," Deutsche Umwelthilfe, November 2012
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 Bundesnetzagentur - Kraftwerksliste
