Turów Power Plant
| Turów Power Plant (Elektrownia Turów) |
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| Coordinates | 50 ° 56 '52 " N , 14 ° 54' 42" E | ||
| country | Poland | ||
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| Type | Thermal power plant / brown coal power plant | ||
| Primary energy | Fossil energy | ||
| fuel | Brown coal | ||
| power | 1900 MW | ||
| operator | Polska Grupa Energetyczna | ||
| Project start | 1958–1962 | ||
| Start of operations | 1962 | ||
| Website | https://elturow.pgegiek.pl/ | ||
The power plant Turów , full name PGE Górnictwo i Energetyka Konwencjonalna SA Oddział Elektrownia Turów , is a brown coal - power plant in southwest Poland in the field of community Bogatynia (Reichenau) near the district Turoszów (Türchau) on the German-Czech-Polish border triangle .
history
The power plant , which went into operation in 1962, is the third largest in Poland with an output of 1,900 megawatts . It covers eight percent of Poland's energy needs. Between 1958 and 1962, the Niedów reservoir was created for the power plant .
The lignite to supply the power plant comes from the Turów opencast mine in the south . Not far from the power plant, the Turów open-cast mine operating museum was set up.
While the German power plants Hirschfelde and Hagenwerder were shut down and demolished after 1990, the Turów power plant has been modernized since 1996, with the flue gas desulphurisation and dedusting systems required for continued operation being upgraded. The work was delayed considerably in December 1998 by an explosion in the 5th block and was completed by the end of 2004. The shutdown of the first units in Turów was planned for 2010.
In the late evening of July 24, 2012, a coal dust explosion occurred in a power plant unit . The subsequent fire spread to two neighboring blocks. The three affected units remained switched off after the accident, the four other units continued to operate with reduced power. Power plant unit 1 was shut down at the time of the accident due to renovation work.
To make room for the new power plant unit 11, cooling tower 7 was blown up on March 17, 2012 and cooling tower 8 on December 1, 2012, and on March 8, 2014 at around 2:30 p.m. the 100-meter-high and 9500-tonne cooling tower 9 was blown up .
PGE Bergbau und Konventional Energetik AG (PGE Górnictwo i Energetyka Konwencjonalna SA) is planning to replace the old power plant units 8, 9 and 10 with the construction of a new power plant unit with a net electrical output of 450 megawatts for converting lignite into electricity. The German public was involved in this planning in April 2016. Further permits were announced in August 2017.
See also
- List of power plants in Poland
- List of fossil fuel power plants in the European Union with the highest carbon dioxide emissions
Web links
- Power plant website (Polish)
- Turów Mine website (German, Polish, English)
- 360 ° views of the opencast mine
- Information about the power plant at ostkohle.de
- Find Lausitz
Individual evidence
- ↑ Irmela Hennig: Turow power plant is investing over five million euros in noise protection . In: Saxon newspaper . February 22, 2012 ( online ).
- ↑ Holger Gutte: Turow power plant plans to install silencers from June . In: Saxon newspaper . February 3, 2010.
- ↑ sz-online.de: Huge explosion in the Turów power plant . (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; Retrieved July 25, 2012 . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ nachrichten.t-online.de: No danger after an accident in a Polish power plant . Retrieved July 25, 2012 .
- ↑ Cooling tower 9 in the Turow power plant blown up , SZ online, March 10, 2014 (accessed on May 14, 2015)
- ↑ Announcement of the State Directorate Saxony according to Article 26 Paragraph 2 of the Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council 2010/75 / EU on cross-border public participation for the application for a change in the integrated permit of the Turów power plant for the construction and operation of a new 450 MW unit in the Turów power plant in Bogatynia, Republic of Poland on March 15, 2016 ( SächsAbl. p. 432 ; PDF, 315 kB)
- ↑ Announcement of the State Directorate Saxony according to Article 26 Paragraph 4 of Directive 2010/75 / EU on the decision to apply for changes to the integrated license of the Turów power plant for the construction and operation of a 450 MW el. Block in the Turów power plant in Bogatynia, Republic of Poland from 19 July 2017 ( SächsAbl. p. 1068 ; PDF, 214 kB)
