List of fossil fuel power plants in the European Union with the highest carbon dioxide emissions

The list contains the 30 fossil fuel -powered thermal power plants in the European Union (EU) and has emerged from the EU in 2020 the UK with the highest emissions of carbon dioxide . For most power plants on this list is coal power plants (both brown and black coal as fuel). The list also includes a power plant that uses oil shale as fuel.

The data come from a study published in 2014, which lists the 30 most emitting power plants in the European Union. The basis of the survey is the data from European emissions trading .

rank	power plant	country	owner	Power in megawatts	fuel	CO 2 emissions 2013 in million t / a	CO 2 emissions in 2013 per MW in t / a
1	Belchatow	Poland	PGE	5102	Brown coal	37.18	7017
2	Neurath	Germany	RWE	4211	Brown coal	33.28	7984
3	Niederaussem	Germany	RWE	3396	Brown coal	29.58	8038
4th	Jänschwalde	Germany	LEAG	2790	Brown coal	25.40	9103
5	Boxberg	Germany	LEAG	2427	Brown coal	21.89	9019
6th	Drax	United Kingdom	Drax Power	3300	Hard coal	20.32	6157
7th	Weisweiler	Germany	RWE	1798	Brown coal	18.66	10378
8th	Agios Dimitrios	Greece	DEI	1589	Brown coal	13.11	8250
9	Brindisi Sud	Italy	Enel	2640	Hard coal	11.81	4473
10	Lippendorf	Germany	LEAG / EnBW	1750	Brown coal	11.73	6702
11	Eggborough	United Kingdom	Eggborough Power	2000	Hard coal	11.50	5750
12	Black pump	Germany	LEAG	1500	Brown coal	11.28	7520
13	Ratcliffe-on-Soar	United Kingdom	Uniper power plants	2000	Hard coal	11.01	5505
14th	West Burton	United Kingdom	EDF	2000	Hard coal	10.89	5445
15th	Eesti Elektrijaam	Estonia	Eesti Energia	1610	Oil shale	10.67	6627
16	Kozienice	Poland	Enea	2840	Hard coal	10.23	3602
17th	Scholven	Germany	Uniper power plants	2056	Hard coal	10.22	4970
18th	Cottam	United Kingdom	EDF	2000	Hard coal	10.17	5085
19th	Turów	Poland	PGE	1505	Brown coal	9.99	6637
20th	Torrevaldaliga	Italy	Enel	1980	Hard coal	9.73	4914
21st	Longannet (shut down March 2016)	United Kingdom	Iberdrola	2400	Hard coal	9.51	3962
22nd	Cardia	Greece	DEI	1200	Brown coal	8.91	7425
23	Aberthaw	United Kingdom	RWE	1555	Hard coal	8.50	5466
24	Fiddler's Ferry	United Kingdom	SSE	2000	Hard coal	8.45	4225
25th	Rybnik	Poland	EDF	1720	Hard coal	8.39	4877
26th	Ferrybridge "C"	United Kingdom	SSE	980	Hard coal	8.31	8479
27	Sines	Portugal	EDP	1250	Hard coal	7.18	5744
28	Aboño	Spain	EDP	922	Hard coal	6.86	7440
29	Mannheim	Germany	GKM	1520	Hard coal	6.75	4440
30th	Maasvlakte	Netherlands	Uniper power plants	1080	Hard coal	6.68	6185

See also

• List of power plants
• List of planned coal-fired power plants in Germany

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1. ↑ CAN Europe , WWF , HEAL, Klima-Allianz Deutschland , European Environmental Bureau: Europe's dirty thirty - How the EU's coal-fired power plants are undermining its climate effort (PDF file; 3.11 MB)
2. ↑ Terry Macalister Longannet power station closes ending coal power use in Scotland in: The Guardian , March 24, 2016, accessed March 24, 2016