New EnBW Gas Power Plant in Karlsruhe: Hydrogen as an Idea – Gas as a Reality

Rheinhafen Karlsruhe – eight power plants stand here. Or better: stood. Two of them serve as emergency reserve, one still supplies electricity from coal into the grid. The rest is shut down or already mined. A place that acts like a history book of German energy policy. In order to leave coal behind as a former cornerstone of the power supply, the energy Baden-Württemberg (EnBW) plans here with the Rheinhafen steam power plant 9 (RDK9) another g…