Residents evacuated ahead of German power station demolition blast
Around 830 residents in the vicinity of the shuttered coal-fired power station at Ibbenbüren in western Germany have been evacuated ahead of its demolition by blasting on Sunday, the local authority said.
The residents are to be accommodated in a central facility for the blast, which will bring down a 120-metre boiler house, followed by a 125-metre cooling tower.
A police spokeswoman said the evacuation had proceeded according to schedule on Sunday morning.
The site is to be made ready by the summer of 2026 for the construction of a substation to convert wind power generated on the North Sea for the German grid.