Boxberg Power Station
Encyclopedia
Boxberg Power Station is a lignite
-fired power station with three units at Boxberg (near Weißwasser
), Saxony
. Since the late nineties
it produces 1900 MW
. Since 2001 it is run by Vattenfall Europe, a subdivision of Vattenfall
.
. The first power station unit was built in 1966, in the 1980s there were 14 units with an accumulated output of 3520 MW.
After the German reunification
twelve units (210 MW each) went off, two (500 MW each) were modernized. In the mid-1990s a new 900-MW unit was built, another 675 MW unit is projected for 2011.
Lignite
Lignite, often referred to as brown coal, or Rosebud coal by Northern Pacific Railroad,is a soft brown fuel with characteristics that put it somewhere between coal and peat...
-fired power station with three units at Boxberg (near Weißwasser
Weißwasser
Weißwasser is a town in Upper Lusatia in eastern Saxony, Germany.Weißwasser is the third largest town in the Görlitz district after Görlitz and Zittau. The town's landmark is its water tower.- History :...
), Saxony
Saxony
The Free State of Saxony is a landlocked state of Germany, contingent with Brandenburg, Saxony Anhalt, Thuringia, Bavaria, the Czech Republic and Poland. It is the tenth-largest German state in area, with of Germany's sixteen states....
. Since the late nineties
1990s
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it produces 1900 MW
Watt
The watt is a derived unit of power in the International System of Units , named after the Scottish engineer James Watt . The unit, defined as one joule per second, measures the rate of energy conversion.-Definition:...
. Since 2001 it is run by Vattenfall Europe, a subdivision of Vattenfall
Vattenfall
Vattenfall is a Swedish power company. The name Vattenfall is Swedish for waterfall, and is an abbreviation of its original name, Royal Waterfall Board...
.
History
Like Jänschwalde Power Station and Schwarze Pumpe Power Station, Boxberg Power Station was built at a place surrounded by surface minesSurface mining
Surface mining , is a type of mining in which soil and rock overlying the mineral deposit are removed...
. The first power station unit was built in 1966, in the 1980s there were 14 units with an accumulated output of 3520 MW.
After the German reunification
German reunification
German reunification was the process in 1990 in which the German Democratic Republic joined the Federal Republic of Germany , and when Berlin reunited into a single city, as provided by its then Grundgesetz constitution Article 23. The start of this process is commonly referred by Germans as die...
twelve units (210 MW each) went off, two (500 MW each) were modernized. In the mid-1990s a new 900-MW unit was built, another 675 MW unit is projected for 2011.