List of least carbon efficient power stations

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Template:Short description This is a list of least carbon efficient power stations in selected countries. Lists were created by the WWF and lists the most polluting power stations in terms of the level of carbon dioxide produced per unit of electricity generated. In general lignite burning coal-fired power stations with subcritical boilers (in which bubbles form in contrast to the newer supercritical steam generator) emit the most.[1][2] The Chinese national carbon trading scheme may follow the European Union Emission Trading Scheme in making such power stations uneconomic to run.[3][4] However some companies such as NLC India Limited and Electricity Generation Company (Turkey) generate in countries without a carbon price. Lignite power stations built or retrofitted before 1995 often also emit local air pollution.[5][6][7][2] In early 2021 the EU carbon price rose above 50 euros per tonne, causing many of the European plants listed below to become unprofitable,[8] and close down.[9] However, because many countries outside Europe and the USA do not publish plant level emissions data it was difficult to make up to date lists. Public information from space-based measurements of carbon dioxide by Climate Trace is expected to quantify Template:CO2 from individual large plants before the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference,[10] thus enabling large polluters to be identified.[11]

2015 report - companies

In 2015 the Stranded Assets Programme at the University of Oxford’s Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment published Stranded Assets and Subcritical Coal report analyzing inter alia carbon intensity of subcritical coal-fired power stations of 100 largest companies having these power stations.[12]

Template:CO2 intensity
(kg/kWh) 		Company Country Number of SCPS
1.447 NLC India Limited Script error: No such module "flag". 2
1.342 Madhya Pradesh Power Generation Company Limited Script error: No such module "flag". 3
1.279 GDF Suez Script error: No such module "flag". 10
1.277 Kazakhmys Script error: No such module "flag". 4
1.269 West Bengal Power Development Corporation Script error: No such module "flag". 5
1.253 OGK-2 Script error: No such module "flag". 4
1.243 Maharashtra State Power Generation Company Script error: No such module "flag". 7
1.240 Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand Script error: No such module "flag". 4
1.226 Termoelectrica Script error: No such module "flag". 17
1.222 RAO UES Script error: No such module "flag". 23
1.220 ČEZ Group Script error: No such module "flag". 13

2005 report - power station from 30 industrialised countries

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Template:CO2 intensity
(kg/kWh) 		Power station Country Note
1.58 Hazelwood Power Station, Victoria Script error: No such module "flag". closed in 2017
1.56 Edwardsport IGCC, Edwardsport, Indiana Script error: No such module "flag". closed in 2012
1.27 Frimmersdorf power plant, Grevenbroich Template:GER closed in 2017
1.25 HR Milner Generating Station, Grande Cache, Alberta, Script error: No such module "flag". converted to gas in 2020
1.18 Emilio Portes Gil, Río Bravo Script error: No such module "flag".
1.09 Bełchatów Power Station, Bełchatów Script error: No such module "flag".
1.07 Prunéřov Power Station, Kadaň Script error: No such module "flag". partially closed
1.02 Template:Interlanguage link, Niihama Script error: No such module "flag".

2007 list - Europe

[14]

Template:CO2 intensity (kg/kWh) Power Station, Location Country Fuel Emissions (MtTemplate:CO2)
1.350 Agios Dimitrios Power Station, Agios Dimitrios, Kozani Script error: No such module "flag". Lignite 12.4
1.250 Kardia Power Station, Kardia Kozanis Script error: No such module "flag". Lignite 8.8
1.200 Niederaussem Power Station, Niederaussem Template:GER Lignite 27.4
1.200 Jänschwalde Power Station, Jänschwalde Template:GER Lignite 23.7
1.187 Frimmersdorf Power Station, Grevenbroich Template:GER Lignite 19.3
1.180 Weisweiler Power Station, Eschweiler Template:GER Lignite 18.8
1.150 Neurath Power Station, Grevenbroich Template:GER Lignite 17.9
1.150 Turów Power Station, Bogatynia Script error: No such module "flag". Lignite 13.0
1.150 As Pontes Power Station, Ferrol Script error: No such module "flag". Lignite 9.1
1.100 Boxberg Power Station, Boxberg, Saxony Template:GER Lignite 15.5
1.090 Bełchatów Power Station, Bełchatów Script error: No such module "flag". Lignite 30.1
1.070 Prunéřov Power Station, Prunéřov Script error: No such module "flag". Lignite 8.9
1.050 Sines Power Station, Sines Script error: No such module "flag". Hard Coal 8.7
1.000 Schwarze Pumpe power station, Spremberg Script error: No such module "flag". Lignite 12.2

2018 - largest emitters

The table lists the largest emitters, regardless of their carbon efficiency.[15]

Template:CO2 intensity (kg/kWh) Power Station Country 2018 emissions (MtTemplate:CO2)
1.8 Bełchatów Script error: No such module "flag". 38
1.5 Vindhyachal Script error: No such module "flag". 34
1.5 Dangjin Script error: No such module "flag". 34
1.5 Taean Script error: No such module "flag". 31
1.3 Taichung Template:Flaglist 30
1.5 Tuoketuo Script error: No such module "flag". 30
1.5 Niederaussem Template:GER 27
1.4 Sasan Script error: No such module "flag". 27
1.5 Yonghungdo Script error: No such module "flag". 27
1.4 Hekinan Script error: No such module "flag". 27

Other

At over 1.34 tCO2-e/MWh Yallourn is the most carbon intense in Australia.[16]

In the very unlikely event of being built, the proposed Afşin-Elbistan C power station would become the least carbon efficient coal-fired power station.

External links

Sources

References

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  13. ↑ WWF Australia: Hazelwood tops international list of dirty power stations, Dated: 13 Jul 2005
  14. ↑ Dirty Thirty, May 2007
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