Prunéřov Power Stations

The Prunéřov Power Station (Czech: Elektrárna Prunéřov, EPRU) was the largest coal-fired power station in the Czech Republic with an installed capacity of 1,490 MW. Unit I (EPRU I, 4 x 110 MW) was shut down in June 2020, while recently modernized Unit II (EPRU II, 3 x 250 MW) continues to operate. Besides the electricity, it also supplies heat to the towns of Chomutov, Jirkov, and Klášterec nad Ohří. The installed capacity for heat generation is 500 MW. The station is located near Kadaň and operated by ČEZ Group. According to the study Dirty Thirty, issued in May 2007 by the WWF, Prunéřov Power Station was the twelfth-worst power station in Europe in terms of the relation of energy efficiency to carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. The power station was the largest single source of CO2 in Czech Republic. In 2008 it emitted 9,210 millions of metric tons of CO2. Unit 2 (EPRU II) of Prunéřov power station has a 300-metre (980 ft) tall flue gas stack. CEZ planned to modernize unit 2, a plan which was challenged in 2010 by Micronesia in the framework of the Espoo Convention on the grounds that the expansion of the power station would impact global warming and through this the environment of Micronesia. According to the Czech environment ministry that modernization plan does not include best available technology. On January 26, 2010, Czech minister of the Environment Martin Bursík (Gree

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