Leczna Power Station (Bogdanka SA)
{{#badges: CoalSwarm|Navbar-Polandandcoal}} Leczna Power Station (Bogdanka SA) is a proposed 500-megawatt (MW) coal-fired power station near Leczna, Poland.
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Location
The map below shows Stara Wieś, the approximate location where the plant would be built.
Background
In May 2013 GDF Suez (now Engie) signed a preliminary agreement with a privately-owned Polish hard coal miner, Lubelski Wegiel Bogdanka, to cooperate in the construction of a 500 MW coal plant on a green field site adjacent to the Bogdanka coal mine in southeast Poland. Bogdanka said if their mining project is approved it would be a key supplier of hard coal and coal slurry for the plant, which could be commissioned in 2020.[1]
In November 2013 Lubelski Wegiel Bogdanka said it will not co-finance the project due to the lack of profitability of investments in coal-fired generation.[2]
In July 2015 Engie said it will not go ahead with the building of the Łęczna coal plant.[3]
According to a 2015 HEAL report, Polish company Bogdanka along with ENGIE Bogdanka have already applied for an environmental permit for the plant.[4] It is unclear if the Polish government will pursue the plant without Engie.
Project Details
- Sponsor: Bogdanka SA
- Parent company: Engie
- Developer: Engie, Lubelski Wegiel Bogdanka S.A.
- Location: Stara Wieś, Gmina Łęczna, Łęczna county, Lubelskie, Poland
- Coordinates: 51.3009,22.88211 (approximate)
- Status: Cancelled
- Capacity: 500 MW
- Type:
- Start date:
- Coal Type: Hard coal
- Coal Source: Bogdanka coal mine
- Source of financing:
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Sources
- ↑ "LW Bogdanka and GDF Suez: partner project," EI< May 13, 2013.
- ↑ "Power in Europe," Platts report, Issue 675, April 28, 2014 (subscription only).
- ↑ Diarmaid Williams, "Engie axes plans to build 500 MW coal-fired power plant," Power Engineering, 16/07/2015
- ↑ "Financing for coal power in Poland – a current and future health threat," HEAL Briefing Paper, Oct 2015
