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Coal power stations in Europe

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Afşin-Elbistan power stations

The Afşin-Elbistan power stations are two adjacent lignite-fired plants in Kahramanmaraş Province, southeastern Türkiye, the country's largest operating coal-fired complex: plant A (1,355 MW) opened in 1984, and plant B (1,440 MW) in 2006.

Bełchatów Power Station

Bełchatów Power Station (Elektrownia Bełchatów) is a lignite-fired, mine-mouth power station near Bełchatów in central Poland, the largest of its kind in Europe at about 5,300 MW.

Boxberg power station

Boxberg power station (Kraftwerk Boxberg) is a lignite-fired power station in Boxberg in the Saxon district of Görlitz, Germany, operated by LEAG; its 2,575 megawatts make it the largest plant in LEAG's Lusatian fleet.

Dětmarovice Power Station

The Dětmarovice Power Station (Elektrárna Dětmarovice) is a power and heating plant in Dětmarovice in the Czech Republic's Moravian-Silesian Region, built between 1971 and 1976.

Didcot power stations

The Didcot power stations are generating stations at Didcot, Oxfordshire, England: Didcot A, a 2,000 MW coal-fired station built from 1965 to 1974, and the gas-fired Didcot B.

Drax power station

Drax power station is a biomass-fired power station near Selby in North Yorkshire, England, operated by Drax Group and formerly the UK's largest coal-fired plant.

Duisburg-Walsum power station

Duisburg-Walsum power station (Kraftwerk Duisburg-Walsum) is a hard coal-fired power station in the Walsum district of Duisburg, Germany, operated by STEAG; its 790 MW Unit 10 dates to 2013.

Dürnrohr Power Station

The Dürnrohr Power Station is a former coal and gas fired power station in Zwentendorf, Lower Austria, operational from 1987, with coal units shut down by 2019.

Frimmersdorf power station

Frimmersdorf power station (Kraftwerk Frimmersdorf) was a lignite-fired power station in Grevenbroich, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, for a time the largest power plant in the world.

GKM (Mannheim) power station

GKM (Mannheim) power station, also known as Großkraftwerk Mannheim or Mannheim-Neckarau power station, is a hard coal-fired combined heat and power plant in Mannheim, Germany, with a capacity of about 2,147 MW.

Heilbronn power station

Heilbronn power station (German: Heizkraftwerk Heilbronn) is a coal-fired combined heat and power plant on the Neckar river in Heilbronn, Germany, operated by EnBW and first commissioned in 1923.

Janschwalde power station

Jänschwalde power station (Kraftwerk Jänschwalde) is a lignite-fired power plant near Cottbus in Brandenburg, Germany, built by East Germany from 1976 and scheduled for complete closure at the end of 2028.

Jaworzno power station

The Jaworzno power station is a hard coal fired power plant in Jaworzno, southern Poland, operated by TAURON Wytwarzanie, with a combined capacity of 1,534 MWe across three plants.

Kingsnorth Power Station

Kingsnorth Power Station was a coal-fired power station on the Hoo Peninsula in Kent, built between 1963 and 1973, closed in 2012, and demolished by December 2018.

Kostolac power station

The Kostolac power station is a lignite-fired complex at Kostolac on the Danube in northeastern Serbia, operated by Elektroprivreda Srbije and supplying roughly 17.7 percent of the country's electricity.

Kozienice power station

Kozienice power station (Polish: Elektrownia Kozienice) is a hard-coal-fired power plant near Kozienice in central Poland, owned by Enea Wytwarzanie and the second largest power plant in Poland.

Lippendorf power station

Lippendorf power station (Kraftwerk Lippendorf) is a lignite-fired power station about 15 kilometers south of Leipzig in Saxony, Germany, operating two 933 MW blocks since 1999.

Longannet power station

Longannet power station was a 2,400 MW coal-fired power station at Kincardine-on-Forth in Fife, Scotland, generating electricity from 1970 until 2016 as the last coal-fired power station in Scotland.

Maasvlakte Power Station (Uniper)

The Maasvlakte Power Station is a Uniper power plant in the port of Rotterdam, Netherlands, centered on the coal- and biomass-fired MPP3, which opened in 2016.

Moorburg power station

The Moorburg power station was a hard coal-fired power plant in Hamburg, Germany, opened in 2015 and shut down in 2021 under Germany's coal phase-out.

Neurath Power Station

Neurath Power Station (Kraftwerk Neurath) is a lignite-fired power station at Grevenbroich-Neurath, Germany, owned by RWE Power, whose two 1,100-MW units are the world's most powerful lignite-fired units.

Niederaussem power station

Niederaussem power station (Kraftwerk Niederaußem) is a lignite-fired power plant in Bergheim, Germany, owned by RWE since 1963, with unit K setting a 43-percent efficiency record.

Nikola Tesla power station

The Nikola Tesla power station (TENT) is a group of lignite-fired power plants near Obrenovac, Serbia, operated by Elektroprivreda Srbije and supplying about half of Serbia's electricity.

Opole power station

The Opole power station (Elektrownia Opole) is a hard coal-fired power station near Opole, Poland, operated by PGE with about 3,300 MW of capacity, among the largest coal plants in Poland.

Patnow power station

Patnow power station (Elektrownia Pątnów) is a lignite-fired power station at Pątnów near Konin in central Poland, owned by ZE PAK; after retirements only its 474 MW unit, Poland's first supercritical unit, remains in operation.

Polaniec power station

Polaniec power station (Elektrownia Połaniec) is a hard-coal-fired power plant with a large biomass unit at Zawada near Połaniec, Poland, on the Vistula, commissioned in 1979 and owned by the Enea Group since 2017.

Ratcliffe-on-Soar Power Station

Ratcliffe-on-Soar Power Station was a 2,000 MW coal-fired power station in Nottinghamshire, England, and the last one operating in the UK when it closed in 2024.

RDK (Karlsruhe) power station

The RDK (Karlsruhe) power station, formally the Rheinhafen-Dampfkraftwerk, is a power plant complex on the Rhine harbor in Karlsruhe, Germany, operated by EnBW with 1,811 MW capacity.

Rybnik power station

Rybnik power station, or Elektrownia Rybnik, is a hard-coal-fired power plant in Rybnik, southern Poland, owned by PGE and generating electricity and district heat since 1972.

Schwarze Pumpe power station

Schwarze Pumpe power station (Kraftwerk Schwarze Pumpe) is a German lignite-fired power station near Spremberg in Brandenburg, commissioned in 1997 and scheduled to run until 2038.