Boxberg Power Station (in German commonly referred as ''Kraftwerk Boxberg'') is a

lignite Lignite (derived from Latin ''lignum'' meaning 'wood'), often referred to as brown coal, is a soft, brown, combustible sedimentary rock formed from naturally compressed peat. It has a carbon content around 25–35% and is considered the lowest ...

-fired

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with three units at Boxberg, near

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Saxony Saxony, officially the Free State of Saxony, is a landlocked state of Germany, bordering the states of Brandenburg, Saxony-Anhalt, Thuringia, and Bavaria, as well as the countries of Poland and the Czech Republic. Its capital is Dresden, and ...

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. Since the late 2012, it has a

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of 2,575 MW. In 2001, it was acquired by Vattenfall Europe, a subdivision of

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. The power station was sold by

to the Czech energy group EPH and its financial partner PPF Investments on 30September 2016.

History

Jänschwalde Power Station Jänschwalde Power Station is located near the village of Jänschwalde in Brandenburg on the Germany, German-Poland, Polish border. The lignite-fired power station has an installed capacity of 3,000 megawatts and consists of six 500 MW units. It ...

and Schwarze Pumpe Power Station, Boxberg Power Station was built at a place surrounded by surface mines. The first unit was built in 1966, in the 1980s there were 14 units with an accumulated output of 3,520 MW. After the

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twelve units (210 MW each) went off, and two units, 500 MW each, were modernized. In the mid-1990s, a new 900 MW unit was built, another 675 MW unit started operating 2012.

Size

Boxberg Power Station had four chimneys 300 metres tall. One was dismantled in 2000, two were blasted in 2009, and the last one was projected to be completely demolished in 2010 but problems during the process of demolishing delayed that project, it was blasted in 2012.

References

External links

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Data sheet by Vattenfall Europe
''(in German)'' Energy infrastructure completed in 1966 Towers completed in 1966 Buildings and structures in Görlitz (district) Chimneys in Germany Coal-fired power stations in Germany Vattenfall

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