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Lingen Nuclear Power Plant

Lingen, Germany

The 1874th largest power station in the world

268 MW · Capacity

Lingen Nuclear Power Plant is an inactive nuclear power plant in Germany, close to Emsland Nuclear Power Plant. It was constructed between 1964 and 1968 as a demonstration of safe and reliable nuclear power. Operation began on 1 October 1968. It once belonged to VEW, and now belongs to RWE Power AG. The plant was permanently shut down in 1977. RWE has plans for a 400 MW 2-hour grid battery at the site, re-using the Amprion grid connection.

Power station data from Wikidata (CC0). Summary from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

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