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List of least carbon efficient power stations

Index List of least carbon efficient power stations

This is a list of least carbon efficient power stations in selected countries. [1]

83 relations: Agios Dimitrios Power Plant, Agios Dimitrios, Kozani, Alberta, Anthracite, Bełchatów, Bełchatów Power Station, Bogatynia, Boxberg Power Station, Boxberg, Saxony, Brindisi, Carbon dioxide, Climate Action Network, Coal, Cockenzie power station, Cottam power stations, Cottam, Nottinghamshire, Didcot, Drax power station, Edwardsport Power Station, Edwardsport, Indiana, Eggborough, Eggborough power station, Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand, Engie, Eschweiler, European Commission, European Environmental Bureau, European Union, Ferrol, Galicia, Ferrybridge, Ferrybridge power stations, Fiddlers Ferry power station, Fossil fuel power station, Frimmersdorf Power Station, Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, Gas, Grande Cache, Grevenbroich, H. R. Milner Generating Station, Hazelwood Power Station, Jänschwalde, Jänschwalde Power Station, Kadaň, Kazakhmys, Kingsnorth, Kingsnorth power station, Kozienice, Kozienice Power Station, Lignite, Lippendorf, ..., Lippendorf Power Station, Longannet power station, Madhya Pradesh Power Generation Company Limited, Maharashtra State Power Generation Company, Mannheim, Narva, Narva Power Plants, Neurath Power Station, Niederaußem, Niederaussem Power Station, Niihama, Ehime, NLC India Limited, OGK-2, Oil, Porto Tolle, Power station, Prunéřov Power Station, Ratcliffe-on-Soar, Ratcliffe-on-Soar Power Station, Río Bravo, Tamaulipas, Rybnik, Rybnik Power Station, Scholven Power Station, Schwarze Pumpe power station, Sines, Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, Spremberg, Termoelectrica, University of Oxford, Victoria (Australia), West Bengal Power Development Corporation, West Burton power stations, World Wide Fund for Nature. Expand index (33 more) »

Agios Dimitrios Power Plant

Agios Dimitrios Power Station is a power plant located near Agios Dimitrios, Kozani, Greece, situated between the towns of Kozani and Ellispontos village.

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Agios Dimitrios, Kozani

Agios Dimitrios ("Toptsilar", since Turkish domination) is a village in the Ellispontos municipal unit, Kozani regional unit, Greece.

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Alberta

Alberta is a western province of Canada.

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Anthracite

Anthracite, often referred to as hard coal, is a hard, compact variety of coal that has a submetallic luster.

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Bełchatów

Bełchatów (Belchental) is a town in central Poland with a population of 58,326 (2016).

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Bełchatów Power Station

The Bełchatów Power Station is the world's second largest (nominal power of 5,472 MW) lignite-fired power station situated near Bełchatów in Łódź Voivodeship, Poland.

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Bogatynia

Bogatynia ((German: Reichenau in Sachsen) is a town in Zgorzelec County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, in south-western Poland.

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Boxberg Power Station

Boxberg Power Station (in German commonly referred as Kraftwerk Boxberg) is a lignite-fired power station with three units at Boxberg, near Weißwasser, Saxony, Eastern Germany.

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Boxberg, Saxony

Boxberg (also: Boxberg/O.L. or Boxberg/Oberlausitz, Hamor) is a municipality in the Görlitz district in Saxony, Germany.

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Brindisi

Brindisi (Brindisino: Brìnnisi; Brundisium; translit; Brunda) is a city in the region of Apulia in southern Italy, the capital of the province of Brindisi, on the coast of the Adriatic Sea.

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Carbon dioxide

Carbon dioxide (chemical formula) is a colorless gas with a density about 60% higher than that of dry air.

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Climate Action Network

Climate Action Network–International (CAN) is an umbrella group of environmental non-governmental organisations (NGOs) active on the issue of climate change.

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Coal

Coal is a combustible black or brownish-black sedimentary rock usually occurring in rock strata in layers or veins called coal beds or coal seams.

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Cockenzie power station

Cockenzie power station was a coal-fired power station in East Lothian, Scotland.

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Cottam power stations

The Cottam power stations are a pair of power stations.

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Cottam, Nottinghamshire

Cottam is a village and civil parish in Nottinghamshire 8 miles east of Retford.

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Didcot

Didcot is a railway town and civil parish in the ceremonial county of Oxfordshire and the historic county of Berkshire.

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Drax power station

Drax power station is a large coal-fired power station in North Yorkshire, England, capable of co-firing biomass and petcoke, and its name comes from the nearby village of Drax.

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Edwardsport Power Station

Edwardsport Power Station was a 160-MW coal-fired electrical power plant in Vigo Township, Knox County, near the town of Edwardsport, Indiana.

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Edwardsport, Indiana

Edwardsport is a town in Vigo Township, Knox County, Indiana, United States.

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Eggborough

Eggborough is a village and civil parish of 750 homes, in the Selby district of North Yorkshire, England, close to the county borders with South Yorkshire, West Yorkshire and the East Riding.

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Eggborough power station

Eggborough Power Station is a large coal-fired power station in North Yorkshire, England, capable of co-firing biomass.

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Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand

The Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand (EGAT; (การไฟฟ้าฝ่ายผลิตแห่งประเทศไทย) is a state enterprise, managed by the Ministry of Energy, responsible for electric power generation and transmission as well as bulk electric energy sales in Thailand. EGAT, established on 1 May 1969, is the largest power producer in Thailand, owning and operating power plants at 45 sites across the country with a total installed capacity of 15,548 MW. EGAT's monopoly position in Thailand's electrical energy market has been challenged by critics as influential as a former energy minister and other government members are on the board. It has been criticised as inefficient and an impediment to the development of renewable energy sources.

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Engie

ENGIE (known as GDF Suez prior to April 2015) is a French multinational electric utility company, headquartered in La Défense, Courbevoie, which operates in the fields of electricity generation and distribution, natural gas, nuclear and renewable energy.

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Eschweiler

Eschweiler is a municipality in the district of Aachen in North Rhine-Westphalia in Germany on the river Inde, near the German-Belgian-Dutch frontier, and about east of Aachen and west of Cologne.

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European Commission

The European Commission (EC) is an institution of the European Union, responsible for proposing legislation, implementing decisions, upholding the EU treaties and managing the day-to-day business of the EU.

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European Environmental Bureau

The European Environmental Bureau (EEB) is a network of over 140 environmental citizens’ organisations based in all 28 European Union (EU) Member States, potential Member States and a few neighbouring countries.

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European Union

The European Union (EU) is a political and economic union of EUnum member states that are located primarily in Europe.

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Ferrol, Galicia

Ferrol (In the neighbourhood of Strabo's Cape Nerium, modern day Cape Prior), is a city in the Province of A Coruña in Galicia, on the Atlantic coast in north-western Spain.

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Ferrybridge

Ferrybridge is a village in West Yorkshire, England.

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Ferrybridge power stations

Ferrybridge power station refers to a series of three coal-fired power stations situated on the River Aire near Ferrybridge in West Yorkshire, England, next to the junction of the M62 and A1(M) motorways.

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Fiddlers Ferry power station

Fiddlers Ferry Power Station is a coal fired power station located in Warrington, Cheshire, in North West England, which is capable of co-firing biomass.

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Fossil fuel power station

A fossil fuel power station is a power station which burns a fossil fuel such as coal, natural gas, or petroleum to produce electricity.

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Frimmersdorf Power Station

Frimmersdorf Power Station, located in Grevenbroich, is one of the largest lignite-fired power stations in Germany.

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Gainsborough, Lincolnshire

Gainsborough is a town in the West Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England.

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Gas

Gas is one of the four fundamental states of matter (the others being solid, liquid, and plasma).

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Grande Cache

Grande Cache is a town in west-central Alberta, Canada, located northwest of Hinton and west of Edmonton.

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Grevenbroich

Grevenbroich (known as the "Capital of Energy") is a town in the Rhein-Kreis Neuss, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

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H. R. Milner Generating Station

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Hazelwood Power Station

The Hazelwood Power Station is a decommissioned brown coal-fuelled thermal power station located in the Latrobe Valley of Victoria, Australia.

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Jänschwalde

Jänschwalde (Sorbian: Janšojce) is a municipality in the district of Spree-Neiße in Brandenburg in East Germany.

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Jänschwalde Power Station

Jänschwalde Power Station is located near the village of Jänschwalde in Brandenburg on the German-Polish border.

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Kadaň

Kadaň (Kaaden), is a city in the Ústí nad Labem Region of the Czech Republic.

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Kazakhmys

Kazakhmys Corporation was a UK-registered copper mining company (as Kazakhmys PLC) whose main assets are located in Kazakhstan.

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Kingsnorth

Kingsnorth is a mixed rural and urban village and relatively large civil parish adjoining Ashford in Kent, England.

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Kingsnorth power station

Kingsnorth was a dual-fired coal and oil power station on the Hoo Peninsula at Medway in Kent, South East England.

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Kozienice

Kozienice (קאזשניץ Kozhnits; Koschnitz) is a town in central Poland with 21,500 inhabitants (1995).

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Kozienice Power Station

The Kozienice Power Station is a coal-fired thermal power station in Świerże Górne near Kozienice, Poland.

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Lignite

Lignite, often referred to as brown coal, is a soft, brown, combustible, sedimentary rock formed from naturally compressed peat.

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Lippendorf

Lippendorf is located in the municipality of Neukieritzsch, near Leipzig in Saxony, Germany.

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Lippendorf Power Station

Lippendorf Power Station is a lignite-fired power station in Lippendorf, which is located in the municipality of Neukieritzsch, near Leipzig in Saxony, Germany.

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Longannet power station

Longannet power station was a large closed coal-fired power station in Fife.

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Madhya Pradesh Power Generation Company Limited

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Maharashtra State Power Generation Company

The Mahanirmiti"' or Mahagenco (Maharashtra State Power Generation Company Limited - MSPGCL)formerly known as MSEB (Maharashtra State Electricity Board) is the major power generating company in the state of Maharashtra, Western India.

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Mannheim

Mannheim (Palatine German: Monnem or Mannem) is a city in the southwestern part of Germany, the third-largest in the German state of Baden-Württemberg after Stuttgart and Karlsruhe with a 2015 population of approximately 305,000 inhabitants.

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Narva

Narva (Нарва) is the third largest city in Estonia.

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Narva Power Plants

The Narva Power Plants (Narva Elektrijaamad) are a power generation complex in and near Narva in Estonia, near the border with Leningrad Oblast, Russia.

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Neurath Power Station

Neurath Power Station is a lignite-fired power station at Neurath in Grevenbroich, Northrhine-Westphalia, Germany.

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Niederaußem

Niederaußem is a city in Bergheim, North Rhine-Westphalia, located 18 km west of Cologne.

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Niederaussem Power Station

Niederaussem Power Station is a lignite-fired power station in the Bergheim Niederaussem/Rhein Erft circle, owned by RWE.

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Niihama, Ehime

is a city located in the eastern part of Ehime Prefecture, Japan.

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NLC India Limited

'NLC India Limited (NLCIL) formerly Neyveli Lignite Corporation is a 'Navratna' profit making, Government of India Entreprise engaged in mining of lignite and generation of power through lignite based thermal power plants.

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OGK-2

OGK-2 is a Russian power generation company.

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Oil

An oil is any nonpolar chemical substance that is a viscous liquid at ambient temperatures and is both hydrophobic (does not mix with water, literally "water fearing") and lipophilic (mixes with other oils, literally "fat loving").

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Porto Tolle

Porto Tolle is a town in the province of Rovigo, Veneto, Italy.

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Power station

A power station, also referred to as a power plant or powerhouse and sometimes generating station or generating plant, is an industrial facility for the generation of electric power.

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Prunéřov Power Station

The Prunéřov Power Station (Elektrárna Prunéřov, EPRU) is the largest coal-fired power station in the Czech Republic with installed capacity of 1,490 MW.

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Ratcliffe-on-Soar

Ratcliffe-on-Soar is a village and civil parish in Nottinghamshire on the River Soar.

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Ratcliffe-on-Soar Power Station

Ratcliffe-on-Soar Power Station is a coal-fired power station owned and operated by Uniper at Ratcliffe-on-Soar in Nottinghamshire, England.

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Río Bravo, Tamaulipas

Río Bravo, formally Ciudad Río Bravo, is a city on the northern border of the state of Tamaulipas in northeastern Mexico.

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Rybnik

Rybnik (Rybnick, Rybńik) is a city in southwestern Poland, in the Silesian Voivodeship.

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Rybnik Power Station

Rybnik Power Station is a hard coal-fired power station at Rybnik in Poland.

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Scholven Power Station

Scholven Power Station is a coal-fired power plant in Gelsenkirchen, Germany.

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Schwarze Pumpe power station

Schwarze Pumpe power station (Kraftwerk Schwarze Pumpe translated: Black Pump Power Station) is a modern lignite-fired power station in the "Schwarze Pumpe" (Black Pump) district in Spremberg, Germany consisting of 2 × 800 megawatts (MW) units.

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Sines

Sines is a Portuguese city of Setúbal District, the Alentejo region and subregion of the Alentejo coast, with about 18,298 inhabitants (2015 INE).

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Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment

The Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment (also known as the Smith School) is an interdisciplinary hub of the University of Oxford directed by Professor Gordon L. Clark, FBA that focuses upon teaching, research, and engagement with businesses & enterprise and long-term environmental sustainability.

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Spremberg

Spremberg (Grodk) is a district near the Saxon city of Hoyerswerda and is in the Spree-Neiße district of Brandenburg, Germany.

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Termoelectrica

Termoelectrica is a Romanian state-owned company, its shares being held by the Ministry of Economy and Commerce which has as main objective power generation with thermal power plants.

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University of Oxford

The University of Oxford (formally The Chancellor Masters and Scholars of the University of Oxford) is a collegiate research university located in Oxford, England.

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Victoria (Australia)

Victoria (abbreviated as Vic) is a state in south-eastern Australia.

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West Bengal Power Development Corporation

The West Bengal Power Development Corporation Limited (WBPDCL) is a company owned by the Government of West Bengal with the goal to carry on the business of thermal power generation in the state of West Bengal, India.

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West Burton power stations

The West Burton power stations are a pair of power stations on the River Trent near Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, England.

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World Wide Fund for Nature

The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) is an international non-governmental organization founded in 1961, working in the field of the wilderness preservation, and the reduction of human impact on the environment.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_least_carbon_efficient_power_stations

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