Table: German power plants to jump in if Russian gas dries up
FRANKFURT, May 24 (Reuters) - Germany is making plans to
utilise power stations due to be edled this year or next as
standby capacity in case of disruption to gas supplies from
Russia, economy ministry sources said on Tuesday. urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL5N2XG26F
The following plants, most of which are coal-fired, are
under consideration and could be affected:
Operator Unit Current Fuel source Installed
Status capacity
(MW)
Uniper Heyden 4 Network Hard coal 875
reserve
Uniper Irsching 3 Network Mineral oil 415
reserve
Uniper Ingolstadt 3 Network Mineral oil 386
reserve
Uniper Ingolstadt 4 Network Mineral oil 386
reserve
EnBW Altbach/Deizis Network Hard coal 433
au HKW 1 reserve
EnBW Heilbronn HLB Network Hard coal 137
5 reserve
EnBW Heilbronn HLB Network Hard coal 137
6 reserve
EnBW Marbach GT 2 Network Mineral oil 77
reserve
EnBW Marbach MAR 3 Network Mineral oil 264
DT reserve
EnBW Marbach Mar 3 Network Mineral oil 85
GT (solo) reserve
EnBW Walheim block Network Hard coal 96
1 reserve
EnBW Walheim block Network Hard coal 148
2 reserve
GKM GKM block 7 Network Hard coal 425
Mannheim reserve
Mehrum Mehrum Network Hard coal 690
reserve
Steag Bexbach Network Hard coal 726
reserve
Steag Weiher 3 Network Hard coal 656
reserve
Steag Bergkamen in Hard coal 717***
operation/
earmarked
for
reserve/OK
from
regulator
pending
Steag MKV " Hard coal 179***
Voelklingen
Steag HKW " Hard coal 211***
Voelklingen
Uniper Scholven C " Hard coal 345***
Uniper Staudinger 5 " Hard coal 510***
RWE Niederaussem E Security Brown coal 295
reserve
RWE Niederaussem F Security Brown coal 299
reserve
RWE Neurath C Security Brown coal 292
reserve
Leag Jaenschwalde E Security Brown coal 500
reserve
Leag Jaenschwalde F Security Brown coal 500
reserve
***These five plants must still be confirmed as system relevant
by the regulator and in that case would become part of the
network reserve from Nov. 1, 2022
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UPDATE 1-Germany plans to put idled coal plants on standby in
case of gas supply disruption urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL5N2XG26F
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(Reporting by Markus Wacket
Writing by Vera Eckert
Editing by David Goodman
)
((vera.eckert@thomsonreuters.com; +49 30 2201 33654;
@EckertVera;))
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