Power Station Warszawa-Kaweczyn
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The Kawęczyn Heat Plant is a coal-fired heat plant at Kawęczyn
in Warsaw
, Poland
. It is operated by Vattenfall Heat Poland SA
.
The heat plant has an installed thermal capacity of 512 MW. It has one 300 metres (984.3 ft) high flue gas stack
, which is one of Poland's tallest free standing structures.
Kaweczyn, Gmina Konstancin-Jeziorna
Kawęczyn is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Konstancin-Jeziorna, within Piaseczno County, Masovian Voivodeship, in east-central Poland.The village has a population of 400.-References:...
in Warsaw
Warsaw
Warsaw is the capital and largest city of Poland. It is located on the Vistula River, roughly from the Baltic Sea and from the Carpathian Mountains. Its population in 2010 was estimated at 1,716,855 residents with a greater metropolitan area of 2,631,902 residents, making Warsaw the 10th most...
, 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 operated by Vattenfall Heat Poland SA
Vattenfall
Vattenfall is a Swedish power company. The name Vattenfall is Swedish for waterfall, and is an abbreviation of its original name, Royal Waterfall Board...
.
The heat plant has an installed thermal capacity of 512 MW. It 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.