Chvaletice Power Station
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Chvaletice Power Station is a large lignite
fired power station
at Chvaletice
in the Czech Republic
, owned by ČEZ
. Installed power output is 4x 200 MW
. Blocks 3 + 4 use a chimney 305 metres tall built in 1977 making it the tallest free-standing structure in the Czech Republic.
Lignite
Lignite, often referred to as brown coal, or Rosebud coal by Northern Pacific Railroad,is a soft brown fuel with characteristics that put it somewhere between coal and peat...
fired power station
Power station
A power station is an industrial facility for the generation of electric energy....
at Chvaletice
Chvaletice
Chvaletice is a small town in the Pardubice Region of the Czech Republic.-History:Archaeologists find earliest traces of humans in this area around 10,000 BCE. Since 1200 - 600 BCE the place is inhabited permanently. The first written record comes from 1393. Ownership of the place has changed...
in the Czech Republic
Czech Republic
The Czech Republic is a landlocked country in Central Europe. The country is bordered by Poland to the northeast, Slovakia to the east, Austria to the south, and Germany to the west and northwest....
, owned by ČEZ
CEZ
CEZ stands for:* one of Falconbridge Ltd.'s refineries* a Czech news channel* IATA airport code for Cortez Municipal Airport* CEZ Group, a Czech energy company...
. Installed power output is 4x 200 MW
Watt
The watt is a derived unit of power in the International System of Units , named after the Scottish engineer James Watt . The unit, defined as one joule per second, measures the rate of energy conversion.-Definition:...
. Blocks 3 + 4 use a chimney 305 metres tall built in 1977 making it the tallest free-standing structure in the Czech Republic.