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Połaniec Power Station is a coal-fired and biomass power station near
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2013 Reo.pl.Profil firmy
2013 Gdfsuez-energia.pl. The biomass section is 80% fuelled by wood chips and 20% by agricultural waste. Wood chips are produced from wood waste at the fuel yard, while the agricultural wastes are supplied from within 100km radius of the plant. From the eight 225MWe turbines, the biomass unit produces 205MW.
Elektrownia Połaniec
GDF SUEZ
GDF SUEZ
{{DEFAULTSORT:Polaniec Power Station Coal-fired power stations in Poland Staszów County Buildings and structures in Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship
Połaniec
Połaniec is a town in Staszów County, Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship, Poland, with 8,406 inhabitants (2012). The town is in Lesser Poland, and its history dates back to the early days of Polish statehood. It lies in the western part of the Sa ...
in Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship
The Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship, also known as the Świętokrzyskie Province, and the Holy Cross Voivodeship ( pl, województwo świętokrzyskie ) is a voivodeship (province) of Poland situated in southeastern part of the country, in the histo ...
, Poland
Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It is divided into 16 administrative provinces called voivodeships, covering an area of . Poland has a population of over 38 million and is the fifth-most populou ...
. It consists of 8 units each with a generation capacity of 225 MW. The power station went into service between 1979 and 1983. Originally these units had a generation capacity of 200 MW, but after turbine modernization between 1992 and 1995, it grew up to its actual value.
Following a 1 billion PLN (290 million USD) investment, in November 2012 a biomass power plant became operational at the site of the existing power station. The resulting biomass unit is one of the largest biomass power plants in the world.Polaniec Biomass Power Plant/ref>
Features
The power station has twoflue gas stack
A flue-gas stack, also known as a smoke stack, chimney stack or simply as a stack, is a type of chimney, a vertical pipe, channel or similar structure through which combustion product gases called flue gases are exhausted to the outside air. Flue g ...
s, which also carry telecommunication antennas and which are both tall. An interesting feature of the facility is that the outgoing powerlines cross the building of the power station on rooftop
pylons.GDF Suez chce zostać liderem OZE w Polsce2013 Reo.pl.Profil firmy
2013 Gdfsuez-energia.pl. The biomass section is 80% fuelled by wood chips and 20% by agricultural waste. Wood chips are produced from wood waste at the fuel yard, while the agricultural wastes are supplied from within 100km radius of the plant. From the eight 225MWe turbines, the biomass unit produces 205MW.
See also
*Bełchatów Power Station
The Bełchatów Power Station is a coal-fired power station near Bełchatów, Poland. It is the largest thermal power station in Europe. The power station is owned and operated by PGE GiEK Oddział Elektrownia Bełchatów, a subsidiary of Polsk ...
* Katowice Power Station
Katowice Power Station ( pl, Elektrociepłownia Katowice) is a coal-fired power station in Katowice, Poland. It consists of four units. Two units each with a generation capacity of 144 MWt went in service respectively in 1985, and a third un ...
* Jaworzno Power Station
The Jaworzno Power Station is a complex of coal-fired thermal power stations at Jaworzno, Poland.
The largest plant of the Jaworzno power plant complex is called Jaworzno III. It has an installed electrical generating capacity of 1,345 MW, as w ...
* Kozienice Power Station
The Kozienice Power Station is a coal-fired thermal power station in Świerże Górne near Kozienice, Poland. It is Poland's second largest power station with an installed capacity of 4,016 MW.
The power station has one high flue gas stack, ...
* Łaziska Power Station
Łaziska Power Station ( pl, Elektrownia Łaziska) is a thermal power station in Łaziska Górne, Poland. The first Łaziska Power Station was inaugurated in 1917. In 1929, an 87.1 MW unit was inaugurated making it to the largest power stati ...
* List of tallest structures in Poland
* List of power stations in Poland
The following page lists all power stations in Poland.
Coal
Gas Turbines
Hydroelectric
Pumped Storage Hydroelectric
Wind
See also
* List of power stations in Europe
* List of largest power stations in the world
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References
Elektrownia Połaniec
GDF SUEZ
GDF SUEZ
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