Moorburg coal -fired energy plant: “Successfully brought to the ground through an explosion” | EUROtoday

In the second try, a boiler home of the previous exhausting coal energy plant in Hamburg-Moorburg was blown up. The Hamburg power works stated that it was “successfully brought to the ground”. Actually, the boiler home was to be collapsed on March 23. But at the moment the explosion solely succeeded within the first boiler home.

A distant -controlled excavator was used to organize the brand new explosion, the Hamburg power works defined. This requires a decrease quantity of explosives. The safety zone was a lot smaller this time than within the marketing campaign in March. Commuters and residents weren’t affected, solely the Moorburg Schanze avenue was closed.

Appendix to the manufacturing of “green” hydrogen deliberate

The double hearth of the facility plant was already blown up on November 10 of final 12 months. The system has been demolished because the finish of 2023. According to earlier data from the power works, the dismantling ought to be accomplished in the course of this 12 months.

Then an infrastructure for inexperienced hydrogen is to be created on the positioning. The building of an electrolyser, a system that produces hydrogen from environmentally pleasant electrical energy, is deliberate. This is to supply inexperienced hydrogen from 2027. It ought to initially have an output of 100 megawatts and later be expanded to 800 megawatts. So far, the Senate has not commented on the prices for the facility plant and the renovation for the brand new plant in Moorburg.

Coal -fired energy plant had over 1600 megawatts

Until his decommissioning in 2021, Moorburg had been one of the trendy and environment friendly exhausting coal energy crops in Germany. The building had value three billion euros, the ability was solely in operation for six and a half years. With its two blocks, it was in a position to generate electrical energy with 827 megawatts of energy every year. This corresponds to virtually all the electrical energy requirement of the Hanseatic metropolis.

The effectivity was given when commissioning 46.5 %, effectively above the nationwide common of 38 % at the moment. Originally, using the waste warmth was deliberate, which might have elevated the effectivity of Moorburg to 60 %. However, the operator Vattenfall had had to surrender the plan of district heating from Moorburg to the west of Hamburg after protests and courtroom selections.

Coal exit deliberate by 2030

Even after the facility plant has been closed, virtually three quarters of Hamburg’s electrical energy manufacturing come from fossil sources. According to the newest figures from the North Statistics Office, round 2.2 million megawatt hours of electrical energy have been generated in 2023, 73.3 % of them with fossil fuels resembling pure fuel and coal. In their new coalition settlement, the SPD and the Greens have confirmed their aim by 2030 on the newest to get out of coal.