Janschwalde power station

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The Janschwalde power station is a 3,210-megawatt (MW) lignite-fired power plant at Jänschwalde in Germany, which is owned and operated by Vattenfall.

Location

The undated satellite below shows the plant near the village of Jänschwalde in Brandenburg on the German-Polish border.

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Background

The lignite fired Jänschwalde power plant had an installed capacity of 3000 MW, consisting of six 500 MW units. The six units were commissioned from 1981 to 1989. The units were later increased to 535 MW each. It is the second-largest brown coal power plant in operation in Germany and is owned by Swedish utility Vattenfall.

CCS plant

The plant had been selected as the site for a Carbon Capture and Storage demonstration project of oxyfuel technology. The tech had been initially trialled by Vattenfall at the Schwarze Pumpe power station. Vattenfall states that the Janschwalde CCS oxyfuel boiler project would be "of 650 MW thermal (around 250 MW electric), which is about 20 times more than Vattenfall's 30 MW pilot plant under construction and compares to today’s largest Oxyfuel test rigs of 0.5 MW." It also states that postcombustion capture technology will also be tested at Jänschwalde.

Pollution

A 2011 analysis by the European environment agency (EEA), 'Revealing the costs of air pollution from industrial facilities in Europe,' estimated that the Janschwalde plant is the third largest polluting plant in all of Europe. Greenpeace and Oxfam protested in front of the plant in November 2011.

Project Details

• Sponsor: Vattenfall Europe AG
• Parent company: Vattenfall
• Developer:
• Location: Peitz , Spree-Neiße, Brandenburg, Germany
• Coordinates: 51.835666, 14.457808 (exact)
• Status: Operating
• Capacity: 3,210 MW (Units A-F: 535 MW)
• Start date: 1981-1989
• Type: Subcritical
• Coal Type: Lignite
• Coal Source: Domestic
• Source of financing:

Articles and Resources

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External resources

• "Vattenfall Janschwalde Fact Sheet: Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage Project", Carbon Capture and Sequestration Technologies @ MIT, June 7, 2010.