Walsum power plant is a coal-fired power station owned by Evonik Industries

Evonik Industries

Evonik Industries is an industrial corporation in Germany owned by RAG Foundation and one of the world´s leading specialty chemicals companies. It was created on 12 September 2007 as a result of restructuring of the mining and technology group RAG...

. It is in the Walsum quarter of Duisburg

Duisburg

- History :A legend recorded by Johannes Aventinus holds that Duisburg, was built by the eponymous Tuisto, mythical progenitor of Germans, ca. 2395 BC...

, on the area of the former Walsum coal mine.

Structure

It has an installed output capacity of 600 megawatts (MW). The chimney

Chimney

A chimney is a structure for venting hot flue gases or smoke from a boiler, stove, furnace or fireplace to the outside atmosphere. Chimneys are typically vertical, or as near as possible to vertical, to ensure that the gases flow smoothly, drawing air into the combustion in what is known as the...

 is 300 metres high, one of the highest chimneys in Germany. The power station supplies not only electricity but also process steam for the paper factory of the Norske Skog

Norske Skog

Norske Skogindustrier ASA or Norske Skog, which translates as Norwegian Forest Industries, is a Norwegian pulp and paper company based in Oslo, Norway and established in 1962...

as well as long-distance heating and electricity to Fernwärmeschiene Niederrhein and the Walsum coal mine. The power station produces annually out approximately 930,000 tons of coal approximately 2.2 billion a KW/H electricity, 33 millions a kW/H of long-distance heating, 500,000 t process steam and 250 millions m³ compressed air per year. It has a coal storage capacity of 34.000 t.

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 for a capacity of 700 megawatts (MW). Block 10 will be ready to start in 2010. June 30, 2007 the Walsum coal mine stopped down.