1906–1907 | The Rummelsburg power plant, built in 1906 and commissioned after a short construction period, goes online on Rummelsburger Landstraße in Berlin-Lichtenberg. Like other Berlin power plants, such as those in Oberspree, Klingenberg, Moabit, Charlottenburg and Reuter, the Rummelsburg power plant is well supplied with coal and fuel via the Spree River. However, the Rummelsburg power plant does not have direct access to the riverbank or a direct waterway connection, which could have been achieved, for example, by means of a branch canal. The distance from the Spree to the boiler house therefore had to be bridged with a coal conveyor system and cable cars. The cooling water circuit to the Spree was closed via a separate inlet and outlet canal. The Rummelsburg power plant reached its maximum capacity in several construction phases in 1917. Parallel to the construction of the Klingenberg power plant, which was being built 600 meters to the north, the Rummelsburg power plant was further expanded between 1925 and 1929. AEG was responsible for the construction work. The investment costs for this expansion phase were estimated at 60 million Reichsmarks. The Rummelsburg power plant is connected to the grid system via a 110 kV line, which also includes the Golpa-Zschornewitz power plant with the Golpa line. After the Berlin Wall was built in 1961, modernizing the Rummelsburg power plant, which was in continuous operation and running at the limits of its capacity, seemed too costly. In 1966, after around 60 years of operation, the power plant was shut down.
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