Niederaussem Power Station

Niederaussem Power Station
Niederaussem, Germany (DE)
The power plant's capacity
of 3,900 megawatt (MW) is distributed across
nine units, the largest and most modern being
the lignite-fired power station with optimized

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plant engineering (BoA). With its efficiency
of 43.2 %, it has chalked up a new all-time
high for power generation from lignite.

(Source
Niederaussem Power Station is No. 10 of Europe's Dirty 30 (worst climate polluting) power stations.
The power plant's capacity
of 3,900 megawatt (MW) is distributed across
nine units, the largest and most modern being
the lignite-fired power station with optimized
plant engineering (BoA). With its efficiency
of 43.2 %, it has chalked up a new all-time
high for power generation from lignite.

(Source
Niederaussem Power Station is No. 10 of Europe's Dirty 30 (worst climate polluting) power stations.
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By: bubaonline

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@ 2010-07-30 14:33:28
Three power plants — Niederaussem, Neurath and Frimmersdorf — are located there within a radius of just 3,300 meters. The water vapor from the cooling towers often darkens the sky, and a film of ochre-colored dust coats the landscape. And then there is the carbon dioxide. Together, the three power plants emit roughly 65 million tons of CO2 a year, or about as much as 25 million cars.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,druck-707654,00.html

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