Bełchatów Power Station

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The power station Belchatow (Polish Elektrownia Belchatow ) in Belchatow in Poland is Europe's largest thermal power plant and the world's largest brown coal power plant with a total capacity of 5,053 megawatts. The power plant is measured by maximum power, currently the third largest coal power plant in the world, just behind the Chinese power plant with 5,400 megawatts Tuoketuo as well as the power plant Taichung in Taiwan with 5,780 megawatts.

The power station was commissioned in 1981 for the first time, the last of today's 13 turbine sets went into operation in 2011. It has two 300 meters tall chimneys, which are among the tallest freestanding structures in Poland.

In autumn 2005, the modernization project Belchatow II began to equip the power plant according to the latest European environmental standards. It was 2011, an additional capacity of 858 megawatts installed at about 42 % efficiency, reaching a total of 5,053 megawatts of power. With already under construction and planned modernization a power increase to 5,474 MW by 2015 is possible. Even before the expansion of capacity was the power plant as Europe's largest carbon dioxide producer.