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Schilling Power Station was an oil-fired power station in the proximity of the nuclear power station at 
Due to the use of
Schilling Power Station was an oil-fired power station in the proximity of the nuclear power station at Stade
Stade (; ), officially the Hanseatic City of Stade (, ) is a city in Lower Saxony in northern Germany. First mentioned in records in 934, it is the seat of the Stade (district), district () which bears its name. It is located roughly to the wes ...
. It went into operation in 1960, was extended in 1962 and 1964, and was shut down in the 1980s. Since it principally served Hamburg
Hamburg (, ; ), officially the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg,. is the List of cities in Germany by population, second-largest city in Germany after Berlin and List of cities in the European Union by population within city limits, 7th-lar ...
north for the electricity supply of Hamburg and fed its current into the transformer station, the first overhead line crossing
An overhead line crossing is the crossing of an obstacle—such as a traffic route, a river, a valley or a strait—by an overhead power line. The style of crossing depends on the local conditions and regulations at the time the power li ...
of the Elbe was built at that time at Stade, the Elbe Crossing 1
Germany's electrical grid is part of the Synchronous grid of Continental Europe. In 2020, due to COVID-19 conditions and strong winds, Germany produced 484 TWh of electricity of which over 50% was from renewable energy sources, 24% from coa ...
. The buildings still exist today and are occasionally used for disaster control exercises.
Due to the use of heavy fuel oil
Heavy fuel oil (HFO) is a category of fuel oils of a tar-like consistency. Also known as bunker fuel, or residual fuel oil, HFO is the result or remnant from the distillation and cracking process of petroleum. For this reason, HFO contains seve ...
, a chimney was built with a height of 722 feet or 220 metres, it was 1962-1965 the tallest chimney worldwide. It was an open lattice structure with three separate exhaust pipes from the blocks. The structure was demolished in 2005.
See also
*List of tallest demolished freestanding structures
This is a list of tallest demolished freestanding structures. To be freestanding, a structure must not be supported by guy-wires, the sea or other types of support. It therefore does not include guyed masts, partially guyed towers and drilling p ...
* List of tallest chimneys
This list of the tallest chimneys in the world ranks chimneys by height.
Use
Although many kinds of industrial facilities have tall chimneys, most of the chimneys with heights of or more are part of thermal, especially coal-fired power stations ...
* Lattice tower
A lattice tower or truss tower is a freestanding vertical latticework, framework tower. This construction is widely used in transmission towers carrying high-voltage electric power lines, in radio masts and towers (a self-radiating tower or as a ...
References
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