GERMANY AND UK HAVE THE MOST POLLUTING POWER PLANTS
05.12.07 - Leído 92 veces. Enviar esta notaHelena Spongenberg
Germany, Greece, Poland and Spain host the dirtiest polluting power stations in the European Union while Germany and the UK have the greatest number of dirty power stations, according to a new report by the World Wildlife Foundation.
BRUSSELS, Belgium; May 12, 2007.- The annual report, named Dirty Thirty, lists the bloc’s 30 most polluting coal-fired power stations, which this year are placed in only seven different member states but together accounted for nearly 400 million tonnes of carbon dioxide in 2006 - ten percent of all CO2 emissions that year.
“The facts are clear: the power sector needs to phase out dirty coal as soon as possible,” said Stephan Singer, head of WWF’s European climate and energy unit, in a statement on Thursday (9 May).
The power stations were ranked according to their efficiency found by calculating the number of grams of carbon dioxide emitted per kilowatt hour of electricity generated.
First place for dirtiest power plant went to Greek power plant Agios Dimitrios, closely followed by another Greek plant, five German power stations, Poland’s Turow plant and Spain’s As Pontes power plant.
Germany and the UK each count for ten of the dirtiest power stations, followed by Poland with four. The Czech Republic, Italy and Portugal each had one power plant on the ‘dirty’ list.
The top 12 listed power plants are fuelled with lignite – also called brown coal. However, carbon dioxide emissions from brown coal fired plants are generally much higher than for hard coal fired plants, which make up most of the remaining power stations listed.
More than half of the dirty thirty are run by four power generation companies - Germany’s RWE, Sweden’s Vattenfall, French group EDF and Germany’s EON.
“We cannot tolerate a power sector where the dirtier get richer,” Mr Singer said according to AFP, and called on the EU to improve its emissions trading schemes to ensure that only those who clean up their power stations reap a financial benefit.
(EUobserver)
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