Siechnice power station

{{#badges: CoalSwarm|Navbar-Polandandcoal}} Siechnice (Czechnica) Power Station is a 132-megawatt (MW) coal plant in Siechnice, Poland.

Location

The photo below shows the plant.

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Background

Czechnica Power Station is owned by Kogeneracja S.A., a Polish power company owned 50:50 by EDF Group. The power station consists of two 50 MW units and one unit of 32 MW, commissioned in 1955.

Project Details

• Sponsor: Kogeneracja S.A.
• Parent company: EDF Group
• Location: Siechnice, Lower Silesian
• Coordinates: 51.0378134, 17.1496931 (exact)
• Status: Operating
• Capacity: 132 MW (Unit 1: 50 MW, Unit 2: 50 MW, Unit 3: 32 MW)
• Type: Subcritical
• Start date: 1955 (all units)
• Coal Type: Hard coal
• Coal Source:
• Source of financing:

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