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... Swedish power giant Vattenfall just announced that it will be decommissioning its new 1.65 GW combined heat and power (CHP) coal Hamburg-Moorburg power plant.
... It will take some 1,600 monster-size wind turbines to take up the slack (assuming 20% efficiency).
... Moorburg ... is still considered as brand new on a power plant scale. It came with a 3-billion euro price tag and was scheduled to run until 2038.
... The two units of this modern, most environmentally friendly coal-fired power plant have a sensationally high efficiency of up to 46.5 percent.
.... The latest technical filter technology is also installed in the exhaust lines.
The Moorburg plant technology is designed so that power can be ramped up within a quarter of an hour, making it flexible in times of power fluctuations.
Until recently, coal-fired and nuclear power plants had been suitable for supplying base load energy at a high level.
But power generation fluctuations cause significant thermal problems when boilers and pipes expand – or contract – under heat. Engineers solved that problem.
With Moorburg’s rated capacity of 1.65 GW, it will take over 1,600 wind turbines with a rated capacity of 5-MW (operating at 20%) to replace the power plant.
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