Bełchatów Power Plant
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| Coordinates | 51 ° 15 '58 " N , 19 ° 19' 49" E | ||
| country | Poland | ||
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| Type | Thermal power plant / brown coal power plant | ||
| Primary energy | Fossil energy | ||
| fuel | Brown coal | ||
| power | 5,420 MW | ||
| operator | Polska Grupa Energetyczna | ||
| Start of operations | 1981 | ||
| Chimney height | 300 m | ||
The Bełchatów power plant ( Elektrownia Bełchatów in Polish ) in Bełchatów in Poland is Europe's largest thermal power plant and the world's largest lignite power plant with a total output of 5420 megawatts . In terms of maximum output, the power plant is currently the second largest coal-fired power plant in the world, just behind the Taichung power plant in Taiwan with 5780 megawatts.
history
The power plant was commissioned in 1981, the last of today's 13 turbine sets went into operation in 2011. It has two 300-meter-high chimneys, which are among the highest free-standing structures in Poland. The actual power plant building is 118 meters high, 740 meters long and 116 meters wide.
In autumn 2005 the modernization project Belchatow II started. In 2011 another block with an output of 858 megawatts and an efficiency of approx. 42% was installed. This increased the output of the power plant, including the 12 older units, each with an output of 345 to 350 MW, to 5,354 megawatts. After modernizations, which increased the output of the old units to 380 to 390 MW, the total output is 5,420 megawatts (as of 2015). Even before the capacity was expanded, the power plant was considered Europe's largest single carbon dioxide emitter.
The power plant should be equipped with CCS technology , which should be financed from EU subsidies. However, the EU refused funding and the project was discontinued in 2013.
The power plant consumes around 45 million tons of lignite from the surrounding opencast mines annually and releases between 30 and 40 million tons of carbon dioxide . This is more than some countries like Ireland or Slovakia emit as a whole.
See also
- List of power plants in Poland
- List of major carbon dioxide emitters
- List of fossil fuel power plants in the European Union with the highest carbon dioxide emissions
Web links
- Christian Davies: Fight the power: why climate activists are suing Europe's biggest coal plant. The Guardian, September 26, 2019
Individual evidence
- ↑ Moc osiągalna w Elektrowni Bełchatów wzrosła do 5 420 MW , September 1, 2015
- ↑ http://www.skyscraperpage.com/diagrams/?b6131 and http://www.skyscraperpage.com/diagrams/?b6133
- ↑ http://www.bohle-gruppe.com/images/bautechnik/Finish_17_Braunkohle-KW_Belchatow_3.pdf
- ↑ Meet Belcha - Europe's biggest carbon polluter (and it's about to get even bigger) , July 22, 2009
- ^ Green coal in the red. May 21, 2015, accessed December 15, 2019 .
- ↑ Susanne Götze : Largest brown coal power plant in the world: The power plant that is dirtier than entire countries. Spiegel Online, December 14, 2019