View of Heizkraftwerk West Karlsruhe

Among other things, the power plant heats the Rheinhafenbad with its waste heat even in the cold season

The cogeneration plant with the 140-meter-high chimney in the west of Karlsruhe is a reserve and peak load power plant of Stadtwerke Karlsruhe. It produces electricity and district heating and houses the central network control center of the Karlsruhe district heating supply. His work took it in 1901, where it was initially claimed with coal. In 1993, the firing with environmentally harmful heavy oil was abandoned and today the power plant is mainly powered by natural gas.

The West combined heat and power plant is a reserve and peak load power plant of the Karlsruhe municipal utility company. It is located at the Rhine harbor in the west of Karlsruhe. According to the power plant management, it runs mainly at midday between 12 and 2 p.m. and in the evening at 6 p.m. In addition to generating electricity, it produces district heating and houses the central network control center for Karlsruhe's district heating supply. The power plant's chimney is 140 meters high.
(Wikipedia)