Scholven Power Station

Scholven Power Station is a coal-fired power plant in Gelsenkirchen, Germany. With an installed capacity of 2,126 megawatts, it once was one of the largest power stations in Europe. It is owned by Uniper.

Two power station units present on the location were beaconed up to their shut-down with oil. The electricity produced at Scholven power station once coverted about 3% of the German electrical demand. The units B - E, the Buer district heating power station (FWK) and the Scholven steam works (DWS) supply steam to neighbouring chemical enterprises and long-distance heating to some surrounding cities. The two 300-metre (984 ft) tall chimneys, which are amongst the tallest structures in Germany, form an impressive industrial skyline together with the 5 115-metre (377 ft) tall cooling towers. An interesting feature of this power station is that the smokestack used by units B-E has three booms, on which the conductors of the 220 kV-line leaving Unit D are attached. The power station area and the neighbouring waste dump of the coal mine Scholven became a film scene in the Tatort "The ball in the body" of 1979.

The power station was an enterprise for the covering of the internal requirement at river and steam of the coal mine Scholven. Soon however, a high performance main power station developed from it. In the years 1968 to 1971 the almost identically constructed blocks B to E went into operation, in 1974 and 1975 followed G and H (50% portion of RWE power), 1979 the block F and at the end of 1985 the long-distance heating power station Buer (FWK). Block G was shut down in summer 2001 and Block H finally in summer 2003.

In August 2008, two of the plant's 7 cooling towers were demolished.^[1]

• List of power stations in Germany
• List of tallest chimneys

• "Drawings of Chimney of Units B-E of E.ON Scholven Power Plant". skyscraperpage.com. Retrieved 2025-02-22.

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