Datteln is a power station site with a long tradition

The foundation stone for the traction current generation of E.ON Kraftwerke was here already laid in 1964 with the construction of blocks 1 and 2 and in the year 1969 with block 3 of the Datteln power station.

Apart from a suitably sized piece of real estate that can be built on, the Datteln site offers an infrastructure that is excellently suited for a hard coal fired power plant’s logistics due to its direct connection to the canal and rail network and in addition its vicinity to the federal motorway A2.

The new construction of the Datteln power station 4 follows the example of the project "Reference power station North-Rhine-Westphalia" and with a net efficiency in excess of 45 percent is setting new standards for the use of coal for the generation of electric energy for an increased security of supply, precautionary dealing with the climate and simultaneously improved noise protection. The plant’s high efficiency reduces the CO₂ discharge by almost 30 percent. The investment amounts to roughly 1.2 billion Euro.

Datteln 4 will go on line as monoblock plant with a gross output of 1,100 MW in 2011 and will replace blocks 1 to 3 in Datteln as well as other plants in the Ruhr Basin that will reach the technical and economical end of their operating time.