Weiher Power Station
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Weiher Power Station is a German hard coal power station. It lies with Quierschied in the Saarland. It has an electrical achievement of over 680 MW and a thermal output of 30 MW. Also will verstromt at the location weiher in a methane plant methane, with it can 5000 households with river be supplied. The power station Quierschied/Weiher a characteristic, the boiler is architectural is a free air chamber. The boiler is freely hung up at four 120 m high supports at a steel stand. The fire-places are 232 meters high. This has the advantage that the boiler can expand with beaconing downward freely. The coal camp of the power station has a capacity of 150.000 tons. These coal supplies are sufficient up to 6 weeks for beaconing the power station. The cooling water of the power station is referred over 16 km a long line of the Saar. At the location weiher was established for the first time 1918 a power station. Operator of the power station is the SaarEnergie GmbH.