Power plants must strangle their power because of the heat wave

Due to the continuous heat, the first German plants have to slow down their performance. Steag, the operator of a power plant based in Essen, has cut electricity from its coal-fired power plant in Bergkamen, Germany, a company spokesman said. The outdoor temperatures are so high that the system can not be cooled enough and can not operate at full load.

The plant's output was initially reduced by 150 megawatts, while Steag announced Friday a 200 megawatt reduction at EEX. According to the newspaper "Die Welt", a block from the Rheinhafen steam plant in Karlsruhe in Baden-Württemberg would also be affected

According to the newspaper, a power plant in the district of Brokdorf in Schleswig-Holstein could soon make the subject of performance restrictions. The Elbe currently has a temperature of 23 degrees Celsius. If this limit is exceeded, the reactor should be removed for water rights reasons.

According to the "Welt", however, the authorities can issue exemptions. The operator of the large Mannheim plant had already asked for it as a precaution. The introduction of cooling water is regulated by the authorities in order to protect the waters from ecological damage.

No bottleneck supply to be feared

The level of water flowing over the rivers could also affect the supply of coal-fired power plants, since ships can not be loaded as usual. RWE cautioned that its Hamm plant could be affected. Production has not been affected. The large plant, which supplies 3.2 million people with electricity, is mainly fed by the Datteln-Hamm canal. But it also has a link with the rail network.

Bottlenecks in the offer are not to be feared by the restrictions, said a spokesman for TSCNET Service Provider in Munich the "world". The joint venture of major European network operators supports network control and procurement tasks.