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==Location==
The undated satellite photo below shows the power station in Kadaň.
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==Background==
The Prunéřov Power Stations are the largest fossil power station complex in the Czech Republic. They are situated on the western edge of the North-Bohemian brown coal basin near the town of Chomutov. They consist of two power stations.<ref name=cez>[http://www.cez.cz/en/power-plants-and-environment/coal-fired-power-plants/cr/prunerov.html "The Prunerov Power Stations,"] CEZ Group, accessed May 2014.</ref>
The Prunéřov I Power Station, the older of the two, began operations between 1967 and 1968. It consisted of six 110 MW units. Between 1987 and 1992, four of these units underwent extensive reconstruction, and the remaining two units were decommissioned during the capacity phasing-out program in the early 1990s.<ref name=cez/>
The Prunéřov II Power Station is ČEZ’s newest fossil power station. It consists of five 210 MW units which have begun operations between 1981 and 1982.<ref name=cez/>
The power station is fueled by brown coal from the Nástup Mines of Tušimice and Severočeské doly, a.s. (North-Bohemian Mines).<ref name=cez/>
==Climate impacts==
According to the study ''Dirty Thirty'', issued in May 2007 by the World Wide Fund for Nature, Prunéřov Power Station is the twelfth-worst power station in Europe in terms of the relation of energy efficiency to carbon dioxide emissions.<ref>[http://assets.panda.org/downloads/european_dirty_thirty_may_2007.pdf The ''Dirty Thirty'' report]</ref> The power station is the largest single source of CO2 in Czech Republic. In 2008 it emitted 9,210 millions of metric tons of CO2.<ref>[http://www.irz.cz/vyhledavani-v-registru/historie/CZ34736841/2008 Integrovaný registr znečišťování]</ref>
