Lippendorf Power Station is a

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-fired

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Lippendorf Lippendorf is located in the municipality of Neukieritzsch, near Leipzig in Saxony, Germany. The present town of Lippendorf used to be known as the village of Medewitzsch. In 1934, the towns of Medewitzsch, Lippendorf and Spahnsdorf combined to fo ...

, which is located in the municipality of

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, near

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Saxony Saxony (german: Sachsen ; Upper Saxon: ''Saggsn''; hsb, Sakska), officially the Free State of Saxony (german: Freistaat Sachsen, links=no ; Upper Saxon: ''Freischdaad Saggsn''; hsb, Swobodny stat Sakska, links=no), is a landlocked state of ...

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. The power plant is owned and operated by

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. It has a heating capacity of .

Old power station

The Lippendorf old power station was built between 1964 and 1968. It generated 600

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s (MW) having four 100 MW and four 50 MW units. The old power station was decommissioned in 2000 when the new power station became operational. The power station had a tall

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, which was built in 1967 and dismantled in 2005. This flue gas stack briefly was the tallest in the world.

Modernization

Lippendorf Power Station was replaced between 1997 and 2000 by a modern power plant, which has two units by the capacity of each which have an efficiency of 42.4% The plant also has a district heating capability of 300 MW. The plant was the biggest private building project in Saxony. The power blocks are amongst that tallest industrial buildings in the world rising 170 m (558 ft) tall.https://www.passeidireto.com/arquivo/76354100/chapter-04-thermal-power-plants-unlocked/12

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