BoA Niederaussem: Konzeption und Inbetriebnahmeerfahrungen

After four years of construction, a new unit of the Niederauβem lignite-fired power plant with a net capacity of 965 MW went into operation in late summer 2002. The new unit is characterized by its excellent efficiency of more than 43 %. It represents a consequent further development of power plant technology that has proven successful for decades in the Rhenish lignite mining area and the technical concepts of newly built units that have been developed on this basis in Eastern German lignite mining areas. The erection and start-up of the new unit went on smoothly and largely within schedule so that the plant went into trial operation in November 2002.