Chvaletice Power Station is a large
lignite
Lignite, often referred to as brown coal, is a soft, brown, combustible, sedimentary rock formed from naturally compressed peat. It has a carbon content around 25–35%, and is considered the lowest rank of coal due to its relatively low heat ...
-fired
power station
A power station, also referred to as a power plant and sometimes generating station or generating plant, is an industrial facility for the generation of electric power. Power stations are generally connected to an electrical grid.
Many p ...
at
Chvaletice
Chvaletice () is a town in Pardubice District in the Pardubice Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 2,900 inhabitants.
Administrative parts
The village of Hornická Čtvrť is an administrative part of Chvaletice.
Geography
Chvaletice is l ...
in the
Czech Republic
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, owned by
Pavel Tykač. Its installed power output is 4x 200
MW. Blocks 3 and 4 use a chimney which is 305 metres tall, built in 1977. It is the tallest free-standing structure in the Czech Republic.
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See also
*List of tallest structures in the Czech Republic
This is a list of the tallest structures in the Czech Republic. The list contains all types of structures, may be incomplete and should be expanded.
Current
Timeline
See also
* List of tallest structures in Prague
*List of tallest ...
References
External links
Info on ČEZ website
Towers completed in 1977
Coal-fired power stations in the Czech Republic
Chimneys in the Czech Republic
Pardubice District
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