Genk-Langerlo power station

This article is part of the Coal Issues portal on SourceWatch, a project of Global Energy Monitor and the Center for Media and Democracy. See here for help on adding material to CoalSwarm.

This article is part of the CoalSwarm coverage of Belgium and coal.
Sub-articles:
Existing coal power stations in Belgium Proposed coal power stations in Belgium Existing coal mines in Belgium Proposed coal mines in Belgium Power companies and agencies in Belgium
Related articles:
Europe and coal Global use and production of coal International Information on Coal

Genk-Langerlo power station was a 560-megawatt (MW) coal-fired power station located in Limburg province, Belgium.

It was closed in April 2016, but may be converted to biomass.

Location

The undated satellite photo below shows the power station in the city of Genk

Loading map...

{"type":"HYBRID","minzoom":false,"maxzoom":false,"types":["ROADMAP","SATELLITE","HYBRID","TERRAIN"],"mappingservice":"googlemaps3","width":"600px","height":"500px","centre":false,"title":"","label":"","icon":"","visitedicon":"","lines":[],"polygons":[],"circles":[],"rectangles":[],"wmsoverlay":false,"copycoords":false,"static":false,"zoom":17,"layers":[],"controls":["pan","zoom","type","scale","streetview","rotate"],"zoomstyle":"DEFAULT","typestyle":"DEFAULT","autoinfowindows":false,"resizable":false,"kmlrezoom":false,"poi":true,"markercluster":false,"clustergridsize":60,"clustermaxzoom":20,"clusterzoomonclick":true,"clusteraveragecenter":true,"clusterminsize":2,"imageoverlays":[],"kml":[],"gkml":[],"searchmarkers":"","enablefullscreen":false,"scrollwheelzoom":false,"locations":[{"text":"","title":"","link":"","lat":50.940323,"lon":5.491806,"icon":""}]}

Background

The 560 MW coal plant is owned by E.ON. E.ON had planned to convert the plant to be a 400 MW biomass plant, but opted instead to sell the plant to wood pellet producer German Pellets, which plans to convert the power plant to burn biomass. The sale was expected to close by the end of 2015.

The plant stopped burning coal in April 2016.

Project Details

• Sponsor: E.ON Benelux
• Parent company: E.ON
• Location: Genk , Limburg province, Belgium
• Coordinates: 50.940323, 5.491806 (exact)
• Status: Retired (planned conversion to biomass)
• Capacity: 560 MW (Units 1&2: 280 MW)
• Type: Subcritical
• Start date: 1973 (Unit 1), 1974 (Unit 2)
• Planned retired date: 2016
• Coal Type: Bituminous
• Coal Source:
• Source of financing:

Resources and articles

Related SourceWatch Resources

• Belgium and coal
• Europe and coal