Three years later, the coal-fired power plant was put into operation, just in time to obey Adolf Hitler's order to start mass production of V2s.

Crane

The power station was located close to the banks of the Peenestrom, ideal for supplying coal. A crane lifted the coal from ships and dumped it onto a conveyor belt. This fed the coal to one of the four steam boilers in the power plant.

Two turbo generators generated 30 MW, two-thirds flowing to the liquid oxygen plant. The residual heat was used to heat offices.

Bombings

Despite several Allied bombing raids on Peenemünde from 1943 onwards, the power plant remained unscathed. The V2 assembly itself was severely hit and moved to an underground complex near the Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp in central Germany.

GDR Central

After the end of the Second World War, the coal-fired power station was renovated by the East German GDR. Electricity was produced there until 1990.