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[[Image:Endesa-Termic.jpg|thumb|Endesa Termic]]
[[Image:Chimenea AS PONTES, España. Comparativa con torre Eiffel de París.tif|thumb|Chimney of the As Pontes power plant compared in height with the [[Eiffel Tower]] in Paris]]

'''Endesa Termic''' is a {{convert|356|m|ft|adj=mid|-high}} chimney belonging to the [[coal power plant]] held by Spanish utility [[Endesa (Spain)|Endesa]] at [[As Pontes de García Rodríguez]] in the outskirts of [[Ferrol, Spain|Ferrol]] in the [[province of A Coruña]], north-western [[Spain]]. Endesa Termic was built in 1974 and is the second tallest chimney in [[Europe]].

The plant is currently undergoing a process of adaptation to the higher [[calorific value]] of hard coal due to the end of lignite extraction in the local mine. Another combined-cycle thermal power plant is currently being tested, which uses gas as fuel and produces 800 MW of power between its three turbines: two gas turbines and one steam turbine. The steam used by the latter is produced using the heat from the exhaust gases of the gas turbines.

==See also==
{{Portal|Spain|Energy}}
* [[List of towers]]
* [[List of chimneys]]
* [[List of tallest freestanding structures in the world]]
* [[List of tallest structures in Spain]]
* [[Endesa (Spain)|Endesa]] acronym in Spanish for Empresa Nacional de Electricidad S.A.
* [[Ferrol, Spain|Ferrol]] City and Naval Station in North Western [[Spain]]

==References==
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==External links==
* [http://www.amigus.org/web/fotos/de_mina_a_lago.html Industrial Area & Mine for the Endesa Termic Plant in As Pontes de García Rodríguez]
* [http://www.endesa.es/NR/rdonlyres/e6gepabwoaqkt3be4htvzmhiwkvm75w52hcrm7j4ilkqfvcavlvbjxfdeopwx2b4oqiwl6sui43h4a/26mar2003.pdf The Coal Power Plant of As Pontes de García Rodríguez en Ferrolterra (Outskirts of Ferrol) North-western Spain.]{{Dead link|date=August 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
* [http://www.galeon.com/sloren/sosgali.htm Black Shadows in Green Galicia - The Coal Power Plant of As Pontes de García Rodríguez (Web in Spanish)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080724145005/http://www.galeon.com/sloren/sosgali.htm |date=2008-07-24 }}
* [http://www.contractorsunlimited.co.uk/news/060201-Foster-Wheeler-Endesa.shtml Foster Wheeler to Upgrade Second Unit at As Pontes Power Plant]
* http://www.skyscraperpage.com/diagrams/?b1018 
* {{cite journal|last1=Nóvoa-Muñoz|first1=JC|title=Mercury accumulation in upland acid forest ecosystems nearby a coal-fired power-plant in southwest Europe (Galicia, NW Spain).|journal=Sci Total Environ|date=May 2008|volume=394|issue=2–3|pages=303–12|doi=10.1016/j.scitotenv.2008.01.044|pmid=18295823|bibcode=2008ScTEn.394..303N }}

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[[Category:Endesa]]
[[Category:Chimneys in Spain]]
[[Category:Coal-fired power stations in Spain]]
[[Category:Buildings and structures in Galicia (Spain)]]
[[Category:Science and technology in Galicia (Spain)]]


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