Brunsbüttel Power Station

Brunsbüttel Power Station was a proposed coal-fired power plant to be built by SüdwestStrom/Iberdrola and was planned to have an installed capacity of 800 megawatts. In January 2007 SüdwestStrom announced that it proposed to build one or two 800 MW or 1,000 MW units in partnership with Iberdrola. Iberdrola, Power in Europe, an energy trade newsletter reported, "is to build and operate, and take a stake in the station assuming the project goes ahead." The current proposal is for two 800 MW units. Since the announcement of the project, the Swiss company Rätia Energie has enetered into an agreement with SüdWestStrom giving it the option of participating in all new power station projects of its partner. Rätia Energie has decided to participate in Brunsbüttel.

Project cancelled
In July 2012, SüdWestStrom (SWS) decided to cancel its Brunsbüttel project. Project plans had grown to a 1,800 MW coal-fired power plant expected to be operational by 2017, with investment estimated at €3.2bn. SWS reportedly cancelled the project due to the refusal of the Schleswig-Holstein government, the lack of federal law on the future of fossil fuel generation, and the economic crisis that reduced the project profitability.

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