Rheinhafen Power Station

Rheinhafen Power Station in Karlsruhe is a 910 megawatt (MW) coal plant under construction by ENBW.

Background
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.

According to a November 2012 report by Deutsche Umweltshilfe, the project is under construction with expected completion in 2013.

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