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Heyden Power Station

Petershagen, Germany

The 1014th largest power station in the world

875 MW · Capacity

Heyden power station is a coal-fired power station located near Petershagen in Germany. The current station was commissioned in 1987, but the site has been used for power generation since 1950. It is owned and operated by the German energy corporation Uniper. It is a coal-fired station with the largest unit capacity of any European power station: 865 MW. The hard coal it burns arrives several times a day by rail or ship to its own dock on the river Weser from all over the world to be stored until use; the station stockpiles a month's coal supply. At full capacity Heyden burns 265 tonnes of coal every hour, and is seldom not running as it supplies most of the daily base electricity demand.

Power station data from Wikidata (CC0). Summary from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

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