Heilbronn Power Station

Heilbronn Power Station in Karlsruhe, Heilbronn, Germany is an existing coal-fried power plant operated by EnBW with three operating units totaling 950 MW, two units with a capacity of approximately 200 MW in cold reserve.

Expansion proposal cancelled
Currently there is proposed expansion of the plant by ENBW which will add an installed capacity of 750 megawatts coal-fired and 400 megawatts of gas-fired capacity.

In June 2006, ENBW announced that the "preliminary planning for a new power plant on the Heilbronn site would not be continued for the imminent investment cycle". Prof. Dr. Thomas Hartkopf, the Chief Technical Officer of EnBW Energie Baden-Württemberg AG stated in a media release that "difficult supply with power plant gas on the Heilbronn site and the resulting unfavourable economic aspects of a new combined gas and steam turbine plant, as well as the special situation at the Neckar site, which leads to comparatively high logistical costs for the supply of coal."

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