Uniper currently operates 13 run-of-river power plants on the Danube, which have a combined capacity of around 226 megawatts and generate around 1.4 billion kilowatt hours of environmentally friendly electricity per year. This is enough to supply around 465,000 private households with electricity and save around 805,000 tons of the harmful greenhouse gas CO2.

Overview of the power plants within the Danube hydropower group

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Donau overview

 

Dikes and dams on the Danube are used for flood protection as required by the authorities, which Uniper ensures. From time to time, rotten trees that endanger the stability of the dams or traffic safety, for example, have to be removed. There - and on many other stretches of river - Uniper creates ecologically valuable biotopes. These are mostly flower-rich meadows and rough grasslands. To ensure that they can develop, a sensitive mowing concept was developed together with nature conservation. The dams are mowed only once or twice a year, and the cuttings are removed so that the flora can develop.

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Donau Kraftwerk Straubing
Straubing

 

As a partner of the waterways and shipping authorities, Uniper helps to ensure the safety and reliability of traffic on the Danube and on part of the Main-Danube Canal. The area of responsibility here extends over 13 barrages from Bertoldsheim to Kachlet. The part of the Danube and the Main-Danube Canal for which we are responsible has a length of around 300 river kilometers. The main task of our employees in the central control room is to ensure constant flow and level control in order to guarantee proper lock operation and a constant level to maintain navigation at all times.

For Deutsche Bahn, hydropower is an important energy supplier. The six plants Bertoldsheim, Bittenbrunn, Bergheim, Ingolstadt and Vohburg as well as the Abbach power plant therefore exclusively generate traction current with a frequency of 16.7 hertz.

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Donau Kraftwerk Kachlet
Kachlet

Facts

Location Danube river
Total installed capacity 226 MW
Average annual generation 1,400 GWh

 

Documents (available in German only)

Broschüre Kraftwerksgruppe Donau
PDF - 3.53 MB
All our power plants in Germany

Danube hydropower group

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Hydro
Hydro
Danube
The hydropower plant group Danube comprises run-of-river plants along the Danube in Germany.

Datteln 4

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Coal
Coal
Datteln 4
Datteln 4 is a hard coal power plant in Datteln, Germany.

Franken

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Gas
Gas
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Oil
Oil
Franken Power Plant
Franken is a light heating oil and natural gas power plant group situated in Nürnberg, Germany.

Heyden

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Coal
Coal
Heyden
Heyden is a hard coal power plant situated in Petershagen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

Ingolstadt

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Oil
Oil
Ingolstadt
Ingolstadt is a heavy fuel oil power plant situated in Großmehring, Bavaria, Germany.

Irsching

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Gas
Gas
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Oil
Oil
Irsching
Irsching is a light heating oil and natural gas power plant group situated in Vohburg, Danube, Germany.

Isar hydropower group

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Hydro
The Isar power plant group comprises run-of-river plants along the rivers Isar, Rißbach, Kesselbach, Loisach and Amper, as well as the storage plant Walchensee/Kochelsee.

The plant group's total installed capacity is 364 MW, with an average annual generation of about 1,600 GWh.

Kirchmöser

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Kirchmöser Power plant
Kirchmöser is a natural gas power plant situated in Havel, Brandenburg, Germany.

Lech hydropower group

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Hydro
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Lech
Lech hydropower group consists of 22 run-of-river power plants on the River Lech as well as the Roßhaupten storage power plant on Lake Forggen. With a total capacity of around 260 megawatts, they generate around 1.1 billion kilowatt hours of environmentally friendly electricity per year.

Main hydropower group

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Wallstadt
The hydropower plant group Main comprises 37 run-of-river plants along Main, Germany.

Pump storage hydropower group

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Waldeck Oberbecken
The Pumped storage power plant group mainly comprises pumped storage and storage plants along the rivers Eder, Diemel, Main, Sinn, Happach, and Rusel. The plant group's total installed capacity is 879 MW, with an average annual generation of about 1,300 GWh.

Scholven

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Coal
Coal
Scholven
Scholven is a hard coal power plant situated in Gelsenkirchen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

Staudinger

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Coal
Coal
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Gas
Staudinger power plant
Staudinger has coal power and natural gas plants situated in Hesse, Großkrotzenburg, Germany.

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We continue to strengthen our presence in key markets, develop innovative solutions and acquire companies in prioritized areas. Uniper solutions are sold to over 100 countries and we currently operate in over 40 countries.