• In Grevenbroich-Neurath originates the most modern brown coal-fired power station of the world. 2.2 billion euros the project can cost RWE. Both new power station blocks 2 and 3 - number 1 is already in Niederaußem in the net - six million metric tons will blow yearly less CO2 in the environment than the old plants for which they substitute. In rush hours 4,000 construction workers should deal in Neurath. Till 2010 the power station new building employs several Thousand workers related with RWE.
• The already built Units 1 & 2 with Five blocks cover with more than 2,200 megawatts, more than ten percent of the installed achievement of the RWE power stations belonging to it.
• Both power station blocks, Units 2 & 3, will have a gross achievement of 1,100 megawatts in each case and an efficiency of more than 43 percent. The most striking components are both buildings for the steam generators (kettle) which are formed in similar optics like the Niederaußemer block, and both cooling towers.
• The company surface of both new blocks encloses just 37 hectares. From this less than 50 percent are farmed. As an ecological balance power RWE for the establishment of both new power station blocks including siding track and free management becomes about 23 hectares of arable land in the area Neurath, Sinsteden and Vanikum after one with the affected local authority districts and the scenery authorities co-ordinated draught afforest. There, about 10 hectares of field surface will offer a retreat space and development area by a special land utilisation system in particular to animal species of the open land.
• Unfortunatly, during construction of Units 2&3, 450ton Steel fell down from a 200m high Mammut Crane, killing on 25.10.2007, 3 workers from ages of 25,32 and 35 years old. One of them stayed for 3 days in a height of about 70m after crash waiting for removal. Two of them came from Slovakia, one from Czechia. 300 rescue vehicles among 5 helicopters were moved to the accident site.
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