Walsum 10 Power Station

Walsum 10 Power Station is a 790 MW coal plant under construction by joint venture -- Steag (51%)/EVN (49%) -- in in Duisburg/Walsum.

Background
According to Deutsche Umwelthilfe, the intended start-up date of the plant is 2013 but the status is unclear. There is a private suit pending, and construction has been heavily delayed due to defective steel.

The project was proposed in September 2005 at the site of the existing Walsum power station site, where Steag operates a two-unit cogeneration plant at the Duisburg-Walsum site with an installed capacity of 600 megawatts. The proposed new unit was referred to as Walsum 10. In a media release Steag stated that "construction begins in the year 2006/2007; commercial operation should commence in 2010". It also stated that Purchasers of the electricity are EVN AG (Energie-Versorgung Niederösterreich) and EnBW Energie Baden-Württemberg AG;

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