Bergkamen Coal Power Plant

Soon the old conveyor belt and the power plant will be history! Quote from the Westfälischer Anzeiger from October 19, 2020
Bergkamen - For six months neither smoke gas nor clouds of water vapor rose into the sky above Heil. The Steag had taken the Bergkamen power plant out of operation from April to September for economic reasons and not fed any electricity into the grid, as the company announced. Now the turbines are running again - but for how much longer?
In any case, the company has applied for government decommissioning bonuses and hopes to win at least one of its four hard coal-fired power plant units in North Rhine-Westphalia in the first round of the procedure for the legally resolved coal phase-out ...
While the company in Heil has only been generating electrical energy since 2016, district heating is also extracted at the Herne thermal power station. ...
If Steag GmbH wins the bid for the state subsidies to phase out coal in the first round of the auction, no (cleaned) smoke gases from the 284 meter high chimney and clouds of steam from the huge cooling tower will be visible in the sky by July 2021 at the latest. .... According to Steag spokesman Daniel Mühlenfeld, what will happen to the power station buildings and the site after the end of coal-fired power generation is still completely open .... Barges may have been in the affiliated coal port on Datteln for the last time in April - Hamm Canal moored. Since then, there has been no shipping traffic there because of the six-month summer break. According to Daniel Mühlenfeld, this continues to apply because after operations have resumed at the beginning of the month, there is currently enough fuel on site so that subsequent supply is currently not necessary, he explained on request. The ashes are removed by truck.

The power plant will probably be shut down shortly, with luck you may still be able to see a coal loading live.

Quaint loading station: It's almost meditative here😉.