Mehrum Power Station is a coal-fired power station in Germany

Germany

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. It lies at the central land channel in Mehrum with Hohenhameln, district Peine. It has an installed capacity of 690 megawatts. Today the unit 3, commissioned in 1979, is still in use. The power station has 135 employees. The chimney of the power station is 250 metres high. It was owned by E.on until 2009 when it was sold to SWS Stadtwerke Schoenbeck GmbH.