Maritsa 3 power station
{{#badges:CoalSwarm|Navbar-Bulgariaandcoal}} Maritsa 3 power station is a 120-megawatt (MW) coal-fired power station in Haskovo, Bulgaria.
The power station is different from Maritsa Iztok-3 Power Station, also known as Maritsa East.
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Location
The undated satellite photo below shows the power station in Dimitrovgrad.
Background
The power station consists of a 120 MW unit 3 that began operating in 1971. Units 1-2 of 25 MW each set up in 1951 to 1954 have been retired.[1]
CCS project
From 2010-2012 Marista 3 was being considered by Toshiba Corporation to capture around 2.5 million tonnes per annum of CO2 for storage in an onshore deep saline formation. Japan’s New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organisation was sponsoring the project’s feasibility study, with funding supplied by the Spanish Fund for Sustainable Development through the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. The plant was scheduled to be fully operational by 2020, but plans were dropped and the project is currently not being pursued.[2]
Plant Details
- Sponsor: TEC Maritsa 3 AD
- Parent company: Natsionalna Elektricheska Kompania (NEK)
- Developer:
- Location: Dimitrovgrad, Haskovo, Bulgaria
- Coordinates: 42.051942, 25.623344 (exact)
- Status: Operating
- Capacity: 120 MW
- Type: Subcritical
- Start date: 1971
- Coal Type: Lignite
- Coal Source: Maritza East Mines
- Source of financing:
Resources and articles
References
- ↑ "Promotion of CCT implementation options in existing coal-fired power plants," Sofa Energy Center, accessed March 2016
- ↑ "Maritsa TPP," Zero CO2, accessed March 2016
