EnBW Opens Karlsruhe Coal-Fired Plant

GALWAY, IRELAND--July 9, 2014 --Written by Martin Lynch, European News Editor for Industrial Info (Galway, Ireland) Germany's third largest electricity utility, Energie Baden-Württemberg AG (EnBW) (Karlsruhe, Germany), has fired up a new coal-fired plant in Karlsruhe in the southwest of the country at a time when power demand continues to fall.

Located in the state of Baden-Württemberg, the Rheinhafen RDK-8 project is a 911-megawatt (MW) plant designed to replace older fossil-fuel fired plants that have been shut down