Duernrohr power station
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Duernrohr (Durnrohr) power station is a retired 802-megawatt (MW) coal-fired power station located in Duernrohr, Niederosterreich, Austria.
Location
The undated satellite photo below shows the power station in Duernrohr.
Background
The power station consisted of two power plant units: unit 1 of 405 MW and unit 2 of 352 MW. Unit 1 was commissioned in 1985, and unit 2 in 1987. Unit 1 was Austria's only supercritical coal plant. It was closed on 15 Apr 2015. Unit 2 remains online. Fuel is Czech and Polish coal. The stack is 210 meters, the tallest in Austria. Unit 1 was owned by Verbund, and unit 2 is owned by EVN.[1]
Unit 2 is planned for closure in 2025, when Austria plants to phase out all coal plants.[2] In May 2019, EVN moved up the retirement for unit 2, to autumn 2019, as Austria sped up its coal phaseout to 2020.[3]
Project Details
- Sponsor: Verbund (Unit 1), EVN (Unit 2)
- Parent company:
- Location: Duernrohr, Niederosterreich, Austria
- Coordinates: 48.32611, 15.923333 (exact)
- Status: Retired
- Capacity: 405 MW (Unit 1), 352 MW (Unit 2)
- Type: Supercritical (Unit 1), Subcritical (Unit 2)
- Start date: 1985 (Unit 1), 1987 (Unit 2)
- Retired date: 2015 (Unit 1)
- Coal Type: Hard
- Coal Source: Czech and Polish coal
- Source of financing:
Resources and articles
References
- ↑ "Coal- and Lignite-Fired Plants in Austria," Industcards, accessed Mar 2016
- ↑ "Austria to close coal plants by 2025, worth up to 1.5m tCO2e," ICIS, 23 November 2015
- ↑ "Geschäftsverlauf im ersten Halbjahr des Geschäftsjahres 2018/19," EVN, 29.05.2019