The Kozienice Power Station is a coal-fired thermal power station

Thermal power station

A thermal power station is a power plant in which the prime mover is steam driven. Water is heated, turns into steam and spins a steam turbine which drives an electrical generator. After it passes through the turbine, the steam is condensed in a condenser and recycled to where it was heated; this...

 in Świerże Górne

Swierze Górne

Świerże Górne is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Kozienice, within Kozienice County, Masovian Voivodeship, in east-central Poland. It lies approximately north-west of Kozienice and south-east of Warsaw....

 near Kozienice

Kozienice

Kozienice is a town in central Poland with 21,500 inhabitants . It is the capital of Kozienice County .-Description:...

, Poland

Poland

Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...

. It is Poland's second largest power station with an installed capacity of 2,820 MW.

The power station has one 300 metres (984.3 ft) high flue gas stack

Flue gas stack

A flue-gas stack is a type of chimney, a vertical pipe, channel or similar structure through which combustion product gases called flue gases are exhausted to the outside air. Flue gases are produced when coal, oil, natural gas, wood or any other fuel is combusted in an industrial furnace, a power...

, which is one of Poland's tallest free standing structures, and two 200 metres (656.2 ft) high flue gas stacks. A further remarkable feature of it is that the powerlines running away from its switchyard are built as a roofstand on the top of the power station building.

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