Cordemais Power Station

Cordemais Power Station
Country France
Location Pays de la Loire
Coordinates 47°17′28″N 1°52′40″W / 47.29111°N 1.87778°W / 47.29111; -1.87778Coordinates: 47°17′28″N 1°52′40″W / 47.29111°N 1.87778°W / 47.29111; -1.87778
Status Operational
Owner(s) Électricité de France
Operator(s) Électricité de France Edit this on Wikidata
Thermal power station
Primary fuel sub-bituminous coal, oil
Power generation
Units operational 4
Nameplate capacity 2,600 MW

The Cordemais Power Station is the largest thermal power stations in France.[1] It is one of the country's largest electricity producers and one of the largest thermal power plants in Europe. It has four generating groups: two coal-fired groups with a capacity of 600 MW each, and two oil-fired groups with a capacity of 700 MW each, with a total production capacity of 2,600 MW. It originally had another 585 MW generating unit that was decommissioned in 1996.[2]

The station is in the western part of France at Cordemais in the department of Loire-Atlantique, Pays de la Loire. With an annual electricity production of 5.7 TWh, it supplies 25% of the electricity used in the Pays de la Loire region, and represents one third of the country's thermal electricity production.[1] It has four chimneys, of which two, at 220 m (720 ft), are some of the tallest structures in France.[3] It is fully owned by the French energy giant Électricité de France.

The station consumes between 1.3 and 2 million tonnes of coal per year. The coal, imported from South Africa, Poland, the United States and Australia, arrives at port facilities at Montoir-de-Bretagne and is conveyed to the power station by barge.[1]

History

The Cordemais power station was commissioned in 1970 with a single oil-fired generating unit with a nameplate capacity of 585 MW. It was extended in 1976 with another two oil-fired units of 700 MW each, and in 1983 with one coal-fired unit of 600 MW. Its last expansion, another 600 MW coal-fired unit, was added in 1984. The station then functioned at a capacity of 3,185MW until 1996, when the 1970s-built unit was decommissioned, resulting in its current capacity of 2,600MW.[4]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Cordemais: France's Largest Thermal Power Station". nantes.port.fr. Retrieved 4 January 2014.
  2. ↑ "Coal-Fired Plants in France". industcards.com. Retrieved 4 January 2014.
  3. ↑ "Top 10 Tallest Structures of France". frenchmoments.eu. Retrieved 4 January 2014.
  4. ↑ "Fossil-fi red energy" (PDF). edf.com. Retrieved 4 January 2014.
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