Altbach Power Station is a modern power plant of EnBW

EnBW

EnBW Energie Baden-Württemberg AG, or simply EnBW, is a publicly traded electric utilities company headquartered in Karlsruhe, Germany.-History:...

 at Altbach

Altbach

Altbach is a municipality in the district of Esslingen in Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany.-Geography:Altbach is 245-450 meters between Plochingen and Esslingen am Neckar in the Neckar on the southern slope of the Schur forest....

, Baden-Württemberg

Baden-Württemberg

Baden-Württemberg is one of the 16 states of Germany. Baden-Württemberg is in the southwestern part of the country to the east of the Upper Rhine, and is the third largest in both area and population of Germany's sixteen states, with an area of and 10.7 million inhabitants...

, Germany

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. It has an output capacity of 1200 MW electricity and 560 MW heat.

The first power plant in Altbach was built in 1899. The precursors of the current power plant went into service in 1950 (unit 1) and in 1956 and 1958 (units 2 and 3). Block 1 was shut down in 1982 and demolished in 1985. Blocks 2 and 3 were shut down and demolished in 1993.

Unit 1 was replaced by a new unit in 1985 and units 2 and 3 by a new unit in 1997. Both units have 250 metre tall chimneys.