Europe’s largest coal plant Belchatow to close by 2036, first unit in 2030

摘要

Europe’s largest coal-fired power station, the 4.93 GW lignite-fired Belchatow plant in Poland, is to close in 2036 according to a transformation plan for the region, plant owner Polska Grupa Energetyczna (PGE) said June 8. State-controlled PGE said the schedule was part of a plan published by the Marshall of the Lodz region, based on data from the Ministry of State Assets. Belchatow’s units would be successively decommissioned in the first half of the 2030s, with the first block scheduled to be shut down in 2030 and the final, probably the plant’s newest 858 MW unit 14, scheduled in 2036.