Scholven Power Station

With an installed capacity of 2,126 megawatts, it is one of the largest power stations in Europe.

Two power station units present on the location were beaconed up to their shut-down with oil.

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 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.

Scholven Power Station (aerial view)
Scholven Power Station
Cooling towers of Scholven Power Station from the north
Scholven Power Station
Crossbars on the chimney used by the units B-E, which carry the 220 kV-circuit of the powerline leaving Unit D